Famous Quotes & Sayings

Danny Masterson

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five.

David Mamet

The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.

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.

Anthony Hopkins

I found a way into the acting business because I thought, well, it beats working for a living, and so that's what I do. But I still feel like a bit of a stranger in it all. I've never really belonged anywhere.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Anthony Hopkins

Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes.

Anna Chlumsky

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

Albert Camus

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

Anna Silk

Doing something completely different than acting for awhile is really important.

Anna Paquin

Acting is pretending to be someone else.

Chuck Yeager

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

Alfonso Ribeiro

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.

Andrew Jackson

The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.

Amy Smart

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

Andy Serkis

They [traditional studios] probably don't understand is that it's a genuine advancement in the actor's tradition. And you know, the tradition and craft of acting. And it's the latest step. You know, we, we tend to find forms of delivering stories that fit our times.

Andy Serkis

Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.

Andy Serkis

My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.

Andrew Scott

'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

Amy Hill

It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.

Ang Lee

Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence is different than a flat image even though by itself it has depth, we create the illusion of depth. For example, some of the shots I have to stay closer to the actor because it's a young actor, I like it closer for some of the shots. I watch 2D scenes next to the camera, then when I go back to my station and watch it in 3D I have to go back and reduce his acting, he has to shrink a little bit because he peeks out more.

Analeigh Tipton

When you're acting, you're a person. When you're modeling, you're a hanger.

Anne Hathaway

My acting wasn't the best. But damn, my ass looked tight.

Anjelica Huston

The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

Anjelica Huston

I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.

William Shakespeare

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.

William Shakespeare

Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

Zoe Kravitz

I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.

Zoe McLellan

One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spend being with your character before you bring that character to life. To me, that's the most rewarding part of it all. It feels very good to show up on a set just knowing that's with you.

Zach Galligan

If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.

Victoria Clark

I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

Raj Kapoor

Those days acting was not considered a respectable profession. Only prostitutes and other such lower classes were associated with it.

Richard McCabe

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

Richard E. Grant

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!