Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Wright

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

Robert Redford

A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

Sasha Grey

When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.

Satish Kumar

The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.

Sara Rue

Honestly, acting is the most work when youre unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. Its the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

Sara Shepard

Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?

Samuel West

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

Sarah Shahi

I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible.

Sarah Paulson

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

Vivien Leigh

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

Ving Rhames

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

William Holden

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

Will Smith

Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don't leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting.

Warren Beatty

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Werner Herzog

I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.

Salma Hayek

When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'

Salman Rushdie

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

Vinny Guadagnino

You never really see me acting a fool on TV.

Vinny Guadagnino

I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.

Vincent Price

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.

Tyler Posey

Acting is all I know; being on a set is all I know.

Rodney Dangerfield

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

Roberto Rossellini

Don't get married to an actress, because they're also actresses in bed.

Vincent Cassel

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

Sandra Bullock

The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.

Sandra Bullock

Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.

Roger Ebert

In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.

Rod Taylor

Acting doesn't suffice.

Rod Taylor

Acting is something I love.

Whoopi Goldberg

All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'

Wes Craven

I make something I can look at and say, "That's a good piece of work, and there's some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it."

Zach Galifianakis

I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.