Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mickey Rourke

It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill.

James Dean

It was an accident, although Ive been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for peoples neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actors course is set even before hes out of the cradle.

It's a cause that is worth fighting, it's a noble and historic cause, ... And it's one in which our troops understand the importance of the mission. While these personal sacrifices are tremendous, the consequences of not acting for freedom and for liberty are certainly far greater.

Cayden Boyd

My parents are a big help, and they're always making sure I have a normal life and my life isn't all just about acting and stuff.

Rafael Nadal

It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.

Dominic Cooper

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

Nancy Reagan

I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.

Tyler James Williams

I got started acting by going to auditions that my mom found in the entertainment section of our local news paper. Then, I got a manager and started going out on more auditions.

Tammy Blanchard

I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.

Tyler Hilton

The reason I like doing these acting projects is because no matter how much acting I do, I'll always have music in my life. I love having both.

Ben Mendelsohn

I was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't a great situation. Acting was the one good thing I was involved in.

Scott Adkins

I'm just about the movies; I enjoy the dexterity of actors in action movies and the choreography side of things. You've just got to be a different person to be a professional fighter. I train with professional fighters, so I know what it takes. It's a very difficult profession, probably harder then the acting profession.

Bob Newhart

The acting is better when you know your material is being judged.

Devon Werkheiser

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

David Krumholtz

I had no idea I was hot. I was just like, "Oh, this is normal. You make two movies a year. This is easy." And of course, I have since learned that acting has its periods of unemployment, and ups and downs. The first five years were really good to me.

Denzel Washington

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

Denzel Washington

The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.

Deborah Kerr

I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.

William Shakespeare

I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion.

Mark Harmon

When I was in acting classes early on, there were so many people in these classes who were doing great work, and you'd just look at them and say, 'Wow, I hope to someday be like that.' And yet these people never worked. You never saw them.

Bill Murray

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

Alan Tudyk

The reason I got into acting was the audience is right there and if you did something great they were right there and you knew it.

Alan Ladd

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting

Charlie Chaplin

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Charles Lamb

Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?

Charles Horton Cooley

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Marian Seldes

Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you'll end up being disappointed in yourself all the time. Instead, high self-esteem comes from how you feel in any moment. So walk into a room acting like you're in charge, and spend your energy on making the people around you happy.

Lisa Jackson

Characters written in 1990 would be acting like idiots if they were cast into the present. For example, the reader might wonder: Why isn't she texting? Where's her cellphone? Can't she have a simple paternity test? For God's sake, look on the Internet and check him out!

Autumn Reeser

When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.

Kim Novak

What I always try to do in my acting is to communicate with people, to touch them, so I am especially gratified by everyone's interest in Vertigo.

Cary Grant

The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.

Cary Grant

I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.

We're seeing Japan aggressively acting to keep the yen steady against the dollar and stop the process of broad dollar weakness from turning into broad yen strength.