Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Rivers

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

George Clooney

Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.

Logan Lerman

I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'

Luke Evans

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

Luke Evans

I started doing [acting] for a living, no one really warned me about the amount of traveling I would do. I always thought everything was shot in Los Angeles.

Ludacris

We [musicians] are comfortable in front of the camera doing music videos, and it's almost a form of acting when we're doing music videos. We're acting out our own thoughts and what we've written down on paper.

Lucas Neff

I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.

Gaby Hoffmann

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

Frank Langella

When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "the courage to be hated."

Frank Langella

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

Frank Langella

There is no right in acting.

Maggie Stiefvater

I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option.

Mackenzie Foy

I want to be acting until the day I die!

Joe Manganiello

Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.

Joaquin Phoenix

I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.

Joaquin Phoenix

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

John C. Reilly

I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting.

John Cage

When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.

Gaby Hoffmann

I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

Gaby Hoffmann

I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.

The leader shows that style is no substitute for substance, that creating an impression is more potent than acting from one's center.

James Stewart

It’s well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

Ellen Terry

Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

Ellen Page

The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else.

All of those things added up, it wasn't just one guy acting alone,

All (of them) have the characteristic symptoms of acting as an oligopoly.

Edward Albee

There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.

Edith Evans

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

Edie McClurg

Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

The market's applauding the resolve of the Fed and acting accordingly, ... In that way, its behavior is rational.

The market's actually acting very well, considering the run-up we saw last week and the attack news over the weekend.

The market's acting a bit better today after basically five weeks of selling, particularly in tech.

Kara Hayward

I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intelligent and have a great sense of humor and have learned to balance what they love with their acting career, and I think that's really a great thing.