A Quote by David Mamet

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

David Mamet

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David Mamet
American - Dramatist
Born: November 30, 1947

It's not the actor's job to be interesting; that's the script's job. It's our job to be truthful and brave.

Mia Goth

As an actor, my job is not to always play characters who make everybody happy. That's not interesting.

Anna Gunn

As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.

Allison Mack

My job, and that's my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make it seem like something you understand and feel and love.

Bryce Courtenay

An actor's job is to do their job. It's great if it's successful and it's fantastic when it's a huge hit, but at the same time, you're there to do a job and make sure you do it well.

Giles Matthey

My job as an actor has inspired generations of children to become doctors. My job as a writer has opened up the minds of millions. My job as a director has produced masterpieces that will be taught in film school for ages.

Zach Braff

Questions like, "Is my suit OK?", or "Is my job performance satisfactory?", are impossible to think about in the absence of a suitable frame of reference. For an interview suit to serve its purpose, it must make you look good relative to other candidates for the job you want. For your job performance to be satisfactory, it must compare favorably with the performance of others who want the same promotion you do. As Charles Darwin saw clearly, much of life is graded on the curve, and conventional economic models completely ignore that fact.

Robert H. Frank

I'm not going to pursue it the way that actors pursue it which means going to all of the auditions and getting a job and all that stuff, because I don't really need to get a job because I have a job as a writer/director. That's how I make my living mostly now. So I don't need to make a living as an actress.

Julie Delpy

It's not an easy job, but the satisfaction an actor feels when he has done a good job and the money make it worth while.

Lorne Greene

My job is to go into that audition and be good enough of an Asian actor - or an actor in general - to land that role so they don't have to go out and hire a white guy. My job is to make sure I capitalize on these opportunities that other people created.

Jimmy O. Yang

As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can.

Matthew McConaughey

My job is not to make you happy. As a filmmaker and as an actor, my job is not to make you feel happy. If you're used to those kind of films, don't come and watch my films.

Manoj Bajpayee

Every role is easy. As an actor it is my job to make my job easy. If I start hyperventilating about my roles, then how will I do it? So, with all my roles, somewhere I feel comfortable about them, and that is why I play them.

Rani Mukerji

My job is really to... everyone is reading the script, and my job is to make sure we all interpret it in as much the same way as possible. And then I give them the freedom to sort of - to get their performance across and then make suggestions where things are not working and accentuate and push things where they really are working.

Duncan Jones

As an actor, technically, when you are off a film, you are out of a job. An actor goes from job to job. By virtue, acting is an unsure profession.

Aditya Roy Kapur

It's interesting because all I want to do is make music. I want to sit in my room, play the guitar, make beats, sing... And I have never made less music than when being a musician became my job.

Maggie Rogers

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