Famous Quotes & Sayings

following the arrest of Rosa Parks, Judge Johnson ruled that African-Americans of Montgomery, Alabama, were acting within their constitutional rights when they organized a boycott of the buses and that Martin Luther King Jr. and others could march from Selma to Montgomery.

Wally Dallenbach

For 20 years, I've been acting like I can drive a race car. Do you think I have a future in acting? I'd love to be in one of your movies.

Bruce Alberts

For a grown man with a fully developed personality, try as you might, it's hard to start acting like a different person.

You don't want a lead acting role if you're not the one that's supposed to be playing it. I'm perfectly satisfied with the career I've had.

Kevin Smith

This owner is asking you to trust he's acting in good faith, but he came to you earlier this year, in stealth mode, asking you to help him break a commitment he made to the public four years ago.

Joseph Smith

This morning I read German and visited wit a brother and sister from Michigan, who thought that "a prophet is always a prophet;" but I told them that a prophet was a prophet only when he was acting as such.---

Nicholas Hoult

There was definitely some of me in Marcus - apart from the haircut. Definitely not the haircut. But, like him, I was quite withdrawn, and acting helped me come out of my shell.

Clara Mamet

There's a lot of creative freedom. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

E. B. White

There is now clear evidence that the CTF is acting as a catalyst for many parents to think about long-term savings for their children, which is brilliant news for future generations.

There may be indications that Mr. Creswell was acting in self-defense outside the bar,

There may be an indication that Mr. Creswell was acting in self-defense outside the bar. He may have been trying to defend himself against others who had joined in the altercation.

It's acting like it got a best-picture nomination. Maybe that's a sign it should have.

I told Karl you just gotta let me loose, and if I start acting up you can put me back in my cage.

James Dean

It's a nice acting challenge for me because the character's much older and he's Jewish and he's quite lonely. At first he feels like his home is being invaded by this person and they have a few spats, but then he discovers the younger character is also Jewish and he grabs a hold of that. (Gardiner) has other secrets that at first tear us apart then bring us together at the end.

Tatiana Maslany

I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.

Douglas Booth

I took up drama and did so much extracurricular work, like the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall's Saturday school. Acting is where I felt most comfortable and how I wanted to express myself.

Eddie Guardado

It's a little payback. He was acting like he had 10 years in the league.

Aaron Ruell

It's allowed all of us to do what we were doing before, which was making small movies, but now we get paid for it. It legitimatized all of us after the film became such a success. I'm directing my first feature that I also wrote this spring called 'Warm Blue Day.' There are a couple of movies that I'm acting in this fall. I'm also a photographer, and I've got three gallery shows left to do this year. And when I'm not doing that, I'm directing commercials.

Justin Hartley

It's all about story and character with me, and I don't care if the job is on daytime or prime time or the web. Hey, give me a good character and someone to listen, and I'll do my acting on a street corner.

This legislation puts a sword and a shield in the hands of the average South Carolina citizen and gives that person an opportunity to fight City Hall successfully when City Hall is acting ... in a way that is not American.

Dick Thompson

This is a virus that isn't acting in a predictable way. It's unusual that cats would be infected at all. The range of hosts here is unusual for an avian virus.

They're just not getting the proper education at the public school. They're acting out and can't handle a large school.

William Kristol

They really are acting out of patriotism. This is not fun for them. They're reluctant to step forward in this way and for good reason. ... They believe that Rumsfeld is endangering the course of U.S. foreign policy.

Keira Knightley

They're all fab and they tell me when I'm acting up and laugh at me as much as possible, which is important.

Glenn Reynolds

Theyre acting like the target of a scandal,

They're acting a lot on what people might think about Bill Campbell, but when the rubber meets the road, I don't know what kind of case they've got.

Dave Parker

There's a suggestion that the roof in that part of the building is acting in very strange ways, and tension now comes into it. I hear the roof is completely safe because it has so much reserve strength, but towards the sides of the chamber will be bits that are not behaving as expected.

There's a whole lot of green field out there. Some people at labels are acting like all this is over because Apple has it. Guys, 98 percent of music purchases (are) still coming from somewhere other than online.

There seems to be some stabilization. Stocks that were collapsing just aren't acting that way anymore.

There's an acknowledgement that Mr. Anderson violated the election laws, but there's also a statement that when he was acting, he thought he was acting consistent with the law.

Melissa Ordway

I took theatre and stuff in college, then I took a bunch of different acting classes here in L.A. Sometimes when I have a hard audition, I'll call my acting coach and he'll come help me. I actually get more nervous in acting class than I do at an actual audition. It's actually a really great way to get over your nerves.

Harry Smith

It was fantastic, ... The piece itself is so engaging and the characters are so rich and well-developed. I felt really reinvigorated about acting and why I was doing it to begin with.

It was always hard in those days for the university theater wing to get enough boys to match the number of girls you had in those acting classes.