Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janeane Garofalo

I didn't start acting until I was 27, and that was just through Gary Shandling and Ben Stiller who I knew through stand-up. And they both in the same year offered me parts on their programs which was unbelievably lucky and fortuitous.

Jane Levy

I'm always changing and learning about acting, and about myself. I just hope to always keep doing that.

Ethel Barrymore

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

Clint Howard

People seem to be interested in me. So I try to keep my acting pretty simple.

The movements have to show that, in the areas which they claim to control, they take all action necessary to stop so-called split factions or dissident commanders, rather than seemingly allowing them to continue acting in violation

The move is significant in the sense that it signals the authorities in China are now acting to reduce rates of economic growth, despite low levels of inflation.

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their be

Cody Horn

Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.

Mila Kunis

Acting was a total mistake-it was just something that happened as an accident. I started auditioning as just an after-school activity, and somehow it just led to something more.

Javier Solana

Acting under the authority granted me by the North Atlantic Council, I have accordingly decided to terminate with immediate effect the air campaign, which I suspended on June 10,

Acting now to minimize it is really the right thing to do for our health and our environment.

Arthur Lowe

Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.

Acting made up a substantial part of Nancy's life,

Trent Lott

acting like a private, instead of a general.

Owen Wilson

Acting just doesn't seem that scary to me. It's just a feel you get and you do it.

Victoria Abril

Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

George Moore

Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.

Jon Favreau

Acting is the most fun. I like to do it and it's great that I can still do that, but you know, you don't really have a lot of control over things, so it's real hit or miss.

Marlon Brando

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

Ingrid Bergman

Acting is the best medicine in the world - if you're not feeling well, it goes away because you are busy thinking about something that isn't yourself. We actors are very fortunate people.

Bob Hoskins

Acting is the best job in the world... Look at the way they treat you when you turn up for work. They give you breakfast and a cup of tea and ask, 'Are you all right?' They tart up your face, you say somebody else's words, then pick up your check and go home. And you get days off! I tell you, it really is the way to live.

Kris Kristofferson

Acting is still fun. Talking about it is not.

Joie Lee

Acting is something I always wanted to do and knew I could do.

Martin Freeman

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

Glenda Jackson

Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh,well, I think of my sex life.

Ruby Rose

Acting is my life. It's what I live and breathe.

Jon Polito

Acting is like a sporting match; a tennis game, but no one should win or lose. The game's the thing!

Shawnee Smith

Acting is like a game of tennis. The better your opponent, the better you're going to play.

Chris Moneymaker

Acting is Hollywood. It's an American dream. If you asked just about anybody and said, 'Would you become an actor if given the opportunity?' - everyone would say yes. Why not? It would be an ideal. It would be an interesting opportunity. But I have other interests as well.

Amanda Schull

Acting is fascinating to me. I love unlocking the mysteries with characters and finding out what would be the most intriguing aspect of that character to exist in. Figuring out a person and getting to be a different person every day, hey - that's pretty lucky. I don't have to wake up and be Amanda if I don't feel like it. You know, that's fun.

Peter Farrelly

Acting is easy. Mainly because we have a lot of roles-and they're like our friends and they want to be in movies, so we put them in.

Chris Evans

Acting is a trial-and-error business. Every actor has a few movies on their resume that they're not terribly proud of, but that's how you learn.

Tim Roth

Acting is a short, sharp shock, and then I have a two-year break to do some directing. I mean you have to stop-OK, be serious about it-so I've put the kids through school.