Famous Quotes & Sayings

Macaulay Culkin

I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

Liv Ullmann

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

Liv Ullmann

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

Michael Jackson

I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.

Melanie Lynskey

The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it would be.

Melissa Leo

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

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.

Michael Caine

I'm the audience's representative on earth.

Michael Caine

You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.

Michael Caine

You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.

Michael Caine

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

Michael Caine

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

Mason Cooley

The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

Mia Wasikowska

Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.

Mia Wasikowska

Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.

Mark Ruffalo

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Paul Giamatti

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.

Parker Stevenson

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

Parker Posey

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

Laurence Olivier

Acting, is not a profession for adults.