Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dane Cook

The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are just a piece of their puzzle.

David Gemmell

You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.

David O. Russell

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

David Mamet

When I started out I was a failed actor.

David Mamet

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

Danny Boyle

Basically, actors arrive in a bubble. They have a little sealed bubble around them and it's basically [comprised of] their agents, their last film, their next film, their press agent, and their per diems - all these things, they cocoon themselves with and you have to puncture that bubble on each of them to make them be in your film.

Danica McKellar

It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

Danica McKellar

I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.

Dabney Coleman

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

Dakota Fanning

It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.

Dakota Fanning

My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.

Cody Horn

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.

Cody Horn

Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.

Failure to act now... will leave us empty handed when a pandemic strikes and will cause needless deaths,

Michael Gregory

Factory activity likely cooled slightly in December, but remains robust.

Denzel Washington

Family is life; acting is making a living.

But on the other hand, employers are hiring quicker these days, sometimes within a week of posting an opening. My advice to applicants is that they need to act quickly on any job in which they are interested.

But like anything in nature, sometimes they don't act like we expect them to.

But I want to make it quite clear that Japan will not cancel its research, whatever dangerous activities or interference may occur.

Dweezil Zappa

But I've done some soundtrack things with my brother for stuff, and I'm hoping to get into actual scoring. That's really where I'd like to end up.

Both sides have boxed themselves into a corner. I think they were going through the motions. This dialogue may well be the final act of diplomacy before the curtain lowers for a referral vote.

Donald Tsang

Both the central government and this administration are actively leading this community towards universal suffrage in an orderly fashion. I am 60 years of age. I certainly want to see universal suffrage taking place in Hong Kong in my time.

Andy Serkis

People find it hard to get their heads around nominating a computer-generated character, but every time you see Gollum on the screen, that's me who is acting up there - even if it is behind a mass of pixels - and it's my voice you hear.

Alison Gopnik

A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create those worlds. Developing everyday theories, like scientific theories, has allowed human beings to change the world.

Penelope Cruz

I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else. My parents also took me to ballet school, and there I think I was able to start communicating those feelings or emotions - I danced for so many years.

Penelope Cruz

My favourite actress is Meryl Streep. Oh, and Anna Magnani.

Philip Glenister

My brother Robert wanted to act from a very early age, and there was always a part of me that said we couldn't have two actors in the family because our parents would go mental. So I became a runner for the Robert Stigwood Organisation and, one way or another, worked my way up to movie publicist.

Pedro Pascal

The acting training in school was great, but it was mostly fun being young and in New York. Because my upbringing was so transient, New York ended up being my home. I've been living in New York longer than I have anywhere else in my life.

Greeks have always been very confident, very strong people. That is - that is our real, I guess, benefit, is that we are independent thinkers. We will always get up on our feet. We - we sometimes act the best when we are downtrodden.

Peter Coyote

We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's.

Just the simple act of sharing wisdom is something that many parents have left to society to do; however, that is not what God teaches in His word.

Michael Owen

I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me.

Paul Simon

We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.