Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Acting is not my language at all.

Maria Grazia Cucinotta

I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.

Mark Wahlberg

The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.

Mariana Klaveno

Part of what makes me love acting so much is, I love the mystery of the universe and the human experience, and storytelling is a great way to perform that, and that is always inspiring to me.

Jack Paar

In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.

Isaiah Mustafa

I love acting. I love performing.

Isaiah Mustafa

I've been acting since 2002, around about there.

Glynn Turman

Acting is about truths and the more truths you're able to tell and share with your audience the more connection there will be.

Gloria Reuben

And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside!

J. L. Austin

Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

Ivan Reitman

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

Paul Newman

Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

Paul Feig

I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.

Mark Goddard

I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky.

Marisa Tomei

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

Marisa Tomei

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

Paul Guilfoyle

Acting is constant exploration.

Paul Guilfoyle

The worst acting is about imitation.

Jurgen Habermas

I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can be vindicated.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

Lisi Harrison

Are you a peice of Saran Wrap? No Well then why are you acting so clingy?

Leonardo DiCaprio

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

Portia de Rossi

I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.

Nelson Mandela

None of us, acting alone, can achieve the success.

Nelsan Ellis

I'd always dabbled in acting.

Neill Blomkamp

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.

Neil Strauss

One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production, you can do it alone. Your success and failure depend entirely on yourself.

Nichelle Nichols

It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.

Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

Jessica Raine

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

Jesse Eisenberg

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.