Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shailene Woodley

I never thought Hollywood is the life I want to do. I thought acting is the life I want to do.

Michael Horton

God’s Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It’s not only descriptive; it’s effective too, God speaking is God acting.

Randy Quaid

Acting's more of a business for me now.

Sean Bean

My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.

Mick Jagger

Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.

Michael Learned

I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.

Sienna Miller

I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.

Sheridan Smith

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

Scott Caan

If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you're a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts.

Tom Hiddleston

Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.

Tom Hiddleston

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

Tom Cullen

I came to acting quite late. I tried not to be an actor.

Tom Cruise

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

Sofia Vassilieva

There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.

Smiley Blanton

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

Michelle Ryan

All that celebrity stuff isn't me. It's just not acting.

Michelle Pfeiffer

I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Acting is kind of brutal.

Michael Sheen

I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.

Michael Moriarty

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly.

John Owen

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures...

Norman Fell

I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.

Noel Coward

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.

John Wayne

General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself."

Marla Sokoloff

Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.

Teresa Wright

I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.

Teresa Palmer

I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case, I sort of fell into acting.

Theodore Roosevelt

By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid.

Michael Palin

Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.

Max Lucado

Though you see nothing, he is acting.

Matthew Lewis

What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with that repetition.

Matt Ross

A lot of acting requires you to be a charming version of yourself.