Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Poehler

Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix.

Allen Iverson

You have to go through good times and bad times to get where you're trying to go.

Alistair Cooke

Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

Allan Bloom

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

Alicia Sacramone

When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.

Alicia Sacramone

I try not to deprive myself of anything. I don't do the low-carb thing or anything like that.

Albert Einstein

It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.

Alfred Molina

I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.

Alex Ferguson

We have to try to beat Everyone.

Kenneth Edmonds

So most of the acting that's done are usually Canadians and because it's shot in Toronto, there's this law that you have to use Canadians for extras.

Carter Jenkins

Sometimes it's just a piece of tape. The other day it was a box of cereal. When we're shooting, he's not there; it's all visual effects. Acting is reacting, and when you don't have anything to act to, it's tough.

Michael Gardner

The whole fourth quarter they were acting as if they were behind. I tried to use my timeouts judiciously to calm them down.

Meg Ryan

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.

Martin Mull

You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is

Nick Frost

I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy.

Michael Caine

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Michael Caine

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

Marcus Camby

From the start of the game, we were acting like we won five in a row. We didn't come out with the intensity and attitude needed to win the game.

Miranda Hart

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

Randall Jarrell

if sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of "corybulous", "hypogeum", "plangent", "irrefragably", "glozening", "tellurian", "conclamant", sometimes we are caught up in the soaring rapture of something unprecedented, absolutely individual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

Lars von Trier

I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.

La Monte Young

Draw a straight line and follow it.

Peter O'Toole

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines,

Leo Ornstein

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know.

K. Eric Drexler

Nature draws no line between living and nonliving.

Kathryn Stockett

And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.