Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Long

There was a time I thought about being a professional guide. I'm a big outdoorsman, but the acting thing has always been there - always something I wanted to do.

Meg Ryan

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.

Maxwell Maltz

Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.'

Max Beesley

Acting can be a difficult business. When I was younger, if my mates were doing better than me, I might be a little bit envious, but as I have got older, I love to see actors cracking on and succeeding. The same goes for writers.

Matthew Rhys

I find acting in contact lenses is bizarre to me, because there's just a giant filter between you and the world. I know it sounds painfully, ridiculously obvious, but it's true. You're just so detached.

Matthew Rhys

I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.

Mathieu Amalric

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

Paula Dobriansky

We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.

Phil Hartman

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

Martin Sheen

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

Laurie Metcalf

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

Lance Bass

I'm more interested in producing than acting.

Johnny Depp

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

John Stuart Mill

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

Martin Mull

You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is

Marlon Brando

Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.

Marlon Brando

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

Marlon Brando

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

Nicolas Cage

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

Nicolas Cage

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

Nicolas Cage

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

Nick Frost

I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy.

Nikos Kazantzakis

The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.

Mort Sahl

I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.

Morris Chestnut

I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.

Miranda Richardson

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

Miranda Lambert

I don't really do acting. I've done a little bit - enough to know I'll stick to what I know. Music is my thing.

Mario Cantone

I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.

Marilyn Manson

Everything is acting.

Michael Cera

If you want to be treated like adults then start acting like them.

Michael Caine

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Michael Caine

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.