Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Piven

I'm acting with the best actors in the world.

Gillian Anderson

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

Jim Broadbent

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

Jessica Brown Findlay

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

Klaus Kinski

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

Nathan Fillion

Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

Ken Kesey

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

Kit Harington

I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

Kim Coates

I take acting lessons with my coach, and what do I get famous for? Holding a puppy!

Keanu Reeves

Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle.

Kristen Stewart

Acting was my classroom in many ways and I always believed and I still do that acting is not just about pretending to be someone else, it's also about discovering yourself and reaching deeper inside yourself.

Olivia Wilde

My life is about politics, a lot of about music, and a lot about things other than acting. I like traveling the world. But, what makes me want to stay in this business and keep doing this are movies when it's a true labor of love.

Kevin McKidd

I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

I can confirm that we have had correspondence from solicitors acting on David Blunkett's behalf.

Peter Dinklage

I'd love to have that story like Dustin Hoffman or John Malkovich, ... Who was it that followed some woman into an acting class and then they suddenly thought, 'Oh this is cool.' and that's how they became an actor. I'd love to have a story like that, but I don't. I've just been doing it since I was a kid and enjoying it.

Andre Holland

I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.

Caterina Murino

I do have ambition - I can dress up for a premiere, get in a limousine, but it's not my life. My life is wearing jeans and tennis shoes and travelling on the metro. I have to do that because otherwise my acting is going to be false.

Daniela Ruah

I do have a huge fascination for science, and I love to hear what my dad has to say. He used to take me into minor surgeries when I was a kid and let me watch, so I definitely have a passion for it, but it's not as big a passion as I have for acting and creating characters.

I do find it humorous to hear 'IRS' and 'CRM' in the same sentence together, ... I think it's important that the government is realizing that it may have a monopoly but that it can't get away with acting like one.

Cary Grant, born Archie Leach, was a poor boy who could barely spell posh. That's acting for you-or maybe Hollywood.

I believe if we had elections right now, that Democrats would lose control of both chambers of the legislature because of the scandal. I feel like I'm acting in the party's best interest. By getting rid of him now, we don't have to deal with it.

Diane Farr

I began auditioning for acting jobs at the ripe old age of 12. Thirty years later, including a 15-year run on television, I sometimes just get offers for work. Often, however, I am still required to run pell-mell around Los Angeles or New York, interviewing for film and TV jobs.

Ice T

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

He basically questioned the sanity of RIM, and said it wasn't acting very rationally. His prodding of the parties worked.

John Miller

He came around the corner for this concert scene and he just had the swagger and confidence, ... He was Johnny Cash - badass. For an amateur like me, it was suddenly clear what real acting is.

Jay Leno

French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach them how to surrender properly.

Jay Baruchel

I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.

Carla Gugino

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

James Earl Jones

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

Jason Gann

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

Jason Isaacs

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

Jason Isaacs

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

Jason Isaacs

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.