Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophie Aldred

I always had a real love of children's presenting, and I was lucky enough to do that and have an acting career alongside it.

One of the nearby residents even asked if he was acting or if his actions were a prank.

Anna Popplewell

One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I've been acting since the age of seven, on and off, just doing little parts and things. I've always been very keen to stay in school.

Paul Simon

I was greatly reassured that she was acting in the best interest of journalists and the public.

Dorien Bryant

I was fooling around at school. I was acting like a kid. Once I signed and knew I was going to prep school, everything pretty much fell off. I didn't feel like BC treated me right.

Roger Federer

I was struggling in the beginning with his way of acting on the court,

I would have to go with Felicity Huffman. What Felicity did was a kind of acting that has never been done in any other movie on the planet. She has opened up the portrayal of something. Imagine changing your aura to play something that people know so little about.

I would definitely call this a historic decision. A mainline denomination like the Presbyterian Church said for the first time that an acting minister has the right to perform same-sex marriages.

Kristen Schaal

I would be an actress for the rest of my life just because it's really relaxing. Writing is hard work, and stand-up is so stressful before you get on stage, but acting is a complete ensemble experience.

If we're not careful, we can get caught up in talking about what we don't know ...instead of acting on what we do know.

Rob James-Collier

I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.

Ashley Bell

I got into acting for the chance to be many different people and many different characters. I love hiding in a role and doing the research. If there is an opportunity to change my body, I will change my body. I'll slip in and disguise myself in a role. That is a really big treat for me.

Ed Harris

I got in athletics, which gave me self-esteem and made me feel like I had a place in the world; that was the initial attraction with acting for me.

If they see us acting like this, how are they going to act?

One of my dad's friends from the music industry came over to our house one time and heard me sing, and he said, 'She should audition for this role I have!' So I did! It was a movie called 'The Gospel,' which I did when I was five. That was when I was like, 'I want to do this acting thing!'

'Six Feet Under' is irresistible Emmy bait, ... It's sophisticated, it's elitist in its sensibilities, it's very cynical and it's brilliantly written -- the writing and acting is first-rate. And it's about life and death, which gives it a kind of aesthetic importance.

Shanola Hampton

Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better.

She probably was standing in the hall, acting like she was on a cell phone or looking at the bulletin boards, and when she saw me step out, she came in, grabbed inside the bag and walked off with the wallet.

She introduced the whole thing by saying there are two sports that are directly relevant to acting -- tennis and fencing.

I looked over at their bench and they were acting like they had it. And I was like, they don't have it, let's go.

Chloe Sevigny

I love acting and I love cinema more than anything,

Joan Ark

I loved every minute of being Val but as I said before there were other acting muscles in my body that I wanted to use.

I loved doing 'Teachers.' I don't know if it's set me on a road, but it certainly got me out of financial penury for two years. But as much as I love it - and it's a huge sacrifice - as much as I love it, I'm in acting because I'm searching to do lots of different things.

Maddie Ziegler

I love dancing just because I've done it my whole life and it's definitely what I want to do. I feel like, I want to train with acting and do movies. Those two are my main priorities. I definitely want to be able to sing and model, too. I definitely love those, too.

Ryan Potter

I love acting - I love doing it. It's a lot of fun, but for the longest time, I wanted to become a firefighter. I still do want to become a firefighter.

I have a fascination with that. Acting like anybody that you want to be, it's a pretty cool thing.

Dwayne Hickman

I have always loved art and architecture, in fact, that has always been my first love, never acting or film work.

I have been given some information that confirms the presence of Syrian intelligence agents still operating inside Lebanon. This includes the infiltration by Syria of the Lebanese security forces, some of whom are acting for Syria.

Jane Levy

I have amazing parents and some really great friends that would kick my butt if I ever started acting different.

Kit Harington

I find you can lose yourself in an acting sense in a fight far more easily than you can in a dialogue scene, and I love that about it. We try as actors all the time: we strive just to completely sort of lose ourselves in the moment, and we never quite get there, but in a fight, you can do it in seconds; that is what I love about it.

Sophie Okonedo

I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there's no room for anything else when you're in it; you're just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover.

I first got into performing when I was eight. It wasn't until I started going out for shows for 'First Stage' or H.O.T. (Huntington Outdoor Theatre) that I really began thinking of acting as a career.

Skylar Astin

I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom picked me up and she had been mentioning, prior to that, this community production of 'Godspell', a couple towns over. I was reluctant, at first, and she bribed me with some great dinner that was in that town, neighboring the theater.