Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gil Bellows

The great thing about acting is that, until you're dead, you can do it. There are aspects to it that as time goes on you hope you get better at, and there are a lot of things that I'm excited to explore.

Peter Greene

Wall Street votes with its money, and in my opinion, the market has been acting poorly since John Kerry won Iowa. If the unemployment picture is indeed improving, then that bodes well for George Bush's reelection campaign, and generally, Wall Street prefers that a Republican is in office.

Allison Tolman

The best thing I ever learned when I first started acting is that you audition, and then you forget about it when you walk out the door. Even when you have a callback, you can't bank on things until you actually book that job, or your heart will just be broken over and over again.

Stephen Rea

We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of acting is an exploration of literature.

Emilia Clarke

I want to be known for my acting, not for my breasts.

Jonathan Turley

The president's claim to be acting under the authority of the resolution borders on the ridiculous.

Denzel Washington

Family is life; acting is making a living.

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.

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.

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.

David Duchovny

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had barely had an acting class. So as Burt Reynolds continued to bring me back for the next three years, I learned so much from him and all the other legends that were on the show.

Brooke Elliott

I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work.

Bryan Greenberg

I got the acting bug really young, when I was around, like, 10. I pretty much just wanted to be Michael J. Fox. He was in 'Teen Wolf' - that was, like, the coolest role, and then he did 'Back to the Future,' and that was the coolest role.

Bill Engvall

I dream of acting with Kevin Costner. I would love to do a movie with him. Not something funny, but a dramatic role.

Bill Paxton

What's been nice is that I've been able to direct from a very idealistic place. I've never had to make my living as a director, which gave me a chance to choose material I feel passionate about. The directing allows me to not have to grab any acting role that comes along. I can pick and choose a little bit.

Ansel Elgort

My dad was always taking photos of us at home, and even on set - he'd bring us along and stick us in the photos in the background. It was almost the beginning of acting for me, like, 'Hey, you go over there and play basketball in the background, and don't even think about the camera.'

Anupam Kher

Drama school, you know, I own an acting school, Actor Prepares.

This will lead to Singapore acting as a conduit to foreign investment in India.

David Simon

You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.

Tony Blair

We will be acting to ensure that implementation of sanctions is as rigorous as we can make it, for example through reinforced operations in the Gulf to intercept suspect traffic,

This team needs to give some maximum effort and that has not been the case over the holiday season. Quite honestly, I think our seniors have tried to do a good job of leading this team and being patient. But now it's time for some of these sophomore and freshmen kids to stop acting like babies and start playing like young men. It was a great meeting but now it's time to quit talking about it and start doing it.

What is extraordinary is that they were caught, and for a change Parliament seems to be acting swiftly about it. It can become the beginning of a change. You never know.

Roberto Aguire

There came a point sometime during high school when I started thinking about exploring acting as a career, but it was more of an intention than an actual decision. I was very interested in a lot of different subjects, but every time I envisioned myself actually pursuing one as a career, I always ended up thinking that I would rather be acting.

The re-imposition of sanctions will cause the EC to be perceived by Congress as not recognizing the tremendous efforts made to comply with our WTO obligations. New EC sanctions will reinforce the perception that the EU is primarily acting in response to the U.S. filing of a WTO compliant against Airbus subsidies.

Reese Witherspoon

When I signed on, I just signed on to do the acting part,

We need to draw inspiration from those who came before us. And though it may be difficult to recreate stage acting and the styles of other actors, we can get to know them and to get to know about this history of stage acting in this country.

Dominic Purcell

You have to believe in hope, not only from an acting point of view but also from an audience perspective.

This Trojan isn't trying to steal money or confidential information, but acting as a moral guardian instead, blocking viewing of sites it determines are unsavory,

Steve-O

At this point, I've really failed at a lot of things. It's nice to be able to say that, in a way. I've failed at music. I've failed at dance. And acting - there have been times when I went out and read lines to audition for acting parts. I believe that if anybody wrangled together those audition tapes, it would be pretty hysterically funny.

Ida Lupino

A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.

Chris Pine

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

Owen Benjamin

I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.