Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jerry Hall

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

Ian Mckellen

I'm not experienced enough, or certain enough of my acting on the screen to say to a director, "You are wrong, I am right. I will only do it this way." I could never feel that, I wish I could be absolutely certain. But on the stage, it's different. I know where I am on the stage.

Glynn Turman

Acting is about truths and the more truths you're able to tell and share with your audience the more connection there will be.

J. L. Austin

Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

Lars Trier

I think some of the acting scenes with Bjork look beautiful. Yes, to me, they are beautiful, but I am quite fond of Bjork.

Robin Wright

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Eckhart Tolle

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

Aldous Huxley

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

Alexander Pope

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

Alexander Pope

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

Alex Kapranos

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

Debbie Ford

If we want to know what we're really committed to, all we have to do is look at our lives.

E. L. James

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

E. L. Konigsburg

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.