Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Slater

When I'm acting with great actors who are in the moment and playful and have a great sense of give and take there is no difference.

Andrea Seigel

When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one.

Chris Evans

I can’t see myself pursuing acting strictly outside of what I’m contractually obligated to do.

Chris Evans

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.

Twiggy

What you wear for work should be comfortable and empowering. If you're working in business, your outfit should mean business. If I go to meet somebody about an acting job, or something creative, then I'll be in my jeans. For me, overdressing is my biggest fear.

Tina Turner

I don't hate myself anymore. I used to hate my work, hated that sexy image, hated those pictures of me onstage, hated that big raunchy person. Onstage, I'm acting the whole time I'm there. As soon as I get out of those songs, I'm Tina again.

Diane Keaton

acting is a wild ride, shared in the company of other actors.

Debra Winger

Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.

Debra Winger

Just because we're on schedule is no reason to shoot bad acting. Someone once said to me, 'You're inconsiderate.' And I said, 'Inconsiderate? Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.' It's a collective slap to a million faces at the same time.

Mr. Kennedy was out of control and acting out of desperation. He owed money and was fearful.

May your mind be infused with 'one' thought(concentration of mind)! May every action of yours be embellished by 'one' thought! May your resolution be 'one'. You, who are acting to the contrary, your disposition shall have opposite orientation.

John Lloyd Young

My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original production of 'A Chorus Line' in an easy tie with the first 10 -15 minutes of Dustin Hoffman in 'Tootsie' that hooked me on the romantic idea that the impossible, difficult life of a struggling actor was for me.

Tyler James

Nervousness I don't think had anything to do with it, because I had been acting for a while, so I was used to going on auditions for major roles, playing other people, ... It was just another audition, but ... I seemed to connect with the character more than all the other ones.

Jeff Bridges

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

Ricky Gervais

I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.

Why would anyone want to be famous, certainly not me. My only goal in an acting career is to be able to work full time as an actor, filmmaker. When I get to that level, which I will, in this business where I can spend one hundred percent of my time honing my craft, then I will be complete.

Tracie Thoms

African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to acting school at Juilliard, and we learned Shakespeare and Shaw, but we never did the work of a single African-American playwright, not August Wilson or Ntozake Shange or Imir Baraka.

Troian Bellisario

In college, that was when I felt that acting is the one I really wanted because I got to be my true self; this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Tracee Ellis Ross

The experience of both acting and producing has been wonderful. It certainly has created a full plate. But it is very exciting and rewarding to have creative input on the show. 'Reed' is about love and family and for me, playing a hand in shaping it has been deeply gratifying.

Todrick Hall

I don't really know exactly what the plan is... I'm not a person that's just pursuing acting or just pursuing singing or just pursuing dancing. You know, I would love to do reality television, I would like to go back to Broadway.

Boris Kodjoe

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

If we're not careful, we can get caught up in talking about what we don't know ...instead of acting on what we do know.

Rob James-Collier

I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.

Ashley Bell

I got into acting for the chance to be many different people and many different characters. I love hiding in a role and doing the research. If there is an opportunity to change my body, I will change my body. I'll slip in and disguise myself in a role. That is a really big treat for me.

Ed Harris

I got in athletics, which gave me self-esteem and made me feel like I had a place in the world; that was the initial attraction with acting for me.

I think he regrets what occurred but felt he was justified in his actions based on Mr. Tomlinson being at his house and acting in a threatening manner.

I think he has a systematic inner logic whenever he's working, including acting. He knows exactly how he wants to proceed. It's best when people don't get in his way. I'm not saying he'd be rude, but it would throw him off. He doesn't need a lot of direction in his life. He knows just where he's going, in acting or anything else.

Elizabeth Banks

I suppose the best advice I ever got, frankly the advice that changed my life, came from my uncle who told me to go to drama school and study acting instead of taking a job, because he said the job would always be there.

Debra Winger

I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good.

Al Pacino

I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like?

Dylan Bruce

I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.

Eve Best

I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in front of you, it feels like you're in a different reality from the person you are acting with; you lose any real connection with them.