Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donnie Wahlberg

My whole high school experience was acting in plays and writing and directing and producing plays during the day and doing music at night.

Wentworth Miller

My rule is you want someone who's got both feet on the ground. An ideal girlfriend might be someone who works in the business and can understand what you're going through but is not an actor themselves - is willing to run lines with you but when you start acting crazy, they throw up their hands and take you for what you are and be accepting.

Jane Krakowski

My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they would take me with them. So my love of acting seeped in from watching my parents and seeing them having fun.

Matt Prokop

My mom always liked the idea of us acting - me and my sister - like, one of us trying it. But my dad always thought it was a joke.

Geoff Davis

It is difficult to acknowledge that mistakes were made in the critical first few hours when the impact of the devastation was first coming into view, because none of us want to believe that officials weren't acting quickly enough, ... But the harsh reality is that mistakes were made.

Dito Montiel

I'm such a fan of actors and also enjoy watching them work so that I can help their acting in any way I can. Sometimes it walks a tricky line because you want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me. I'm a big Woody Allen and Spike Lee fan, and I find their films to be very honest.

Manufacturing is showing a few signs of improvement. It isn't acting as a drag on overall growth, making it easier for the Bank to leave rates on hold for now.

Olympia Snowe

Manufacturers and sellers acting within the law should not be held responsible for the actions of criminals who misuse their products.

Bette Davis

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Bette Davis

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

Bill Burr

Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.

Joan Chen

The acting in China is very stylized and dramatic, and I was just me.

Sam Worthington

The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.

The army must demonstrate that it is capable of acting for the protection of all civilians, irrespective of their ethnic, community or political affiliation.

Gloria Steinem

The art of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

Michael Moriarty

I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.

Dwight Schultz

I wasn't onstage projecting to the back row. I was acting for the lens, which was right in front of me. I learnt a lot from that job.

I wasn't asked to go, and I'm not one to just show up, ... I've since been told that it's dangerous for an actress or actor to meet their subject. Many times they start doing an impersonation of the person rather than acting the part. Kathy said she'd seen me on television but didn't want me on the set for that reason.

My brothers and I, we got with an agent and for three or four years there we did a lot of acting and I did a little modeling in there. It was just something fun to do. As a youngster, you always have dreams of being on the big screen.

My cell phone is the only one that really works since none of the 504 numbers are really working, so I am acting as the middleman for my family and everyone is communicating through me.

Microsoft has been acting a little different lately. It seems to be awakening from its long slumber.

Who I am today speaks far greater than what anyone can say about me. I thank God every day that I am alive and that I am able to dedicate my life to teaching others, enriching lives and acting as a vehicle for empowerment.

When talking about the motion of charge current, you can think of the electrons as acting like a swarm of bees moving in one direction. Within that swarm, individual bees might be colliding, but momentum is conserved with each collision so that the total motion of the swarm is unaffected. When talking about the motion of spin current, the electrons act more like a swarm of honey bees and a swarm of bumble bees trying to move through one another. As the bees in these two populations collide, there is an exchange of momentum that slows the relative motion of each. Eventually both swarms may move in a single direction, but the overall effect has been a drag on their collective motion.

Trace Adkins

Like tonight, I've got to go on stage, and man, my stomach has been hurting a lot, ... I'm dreading it. My gut's been cramping up, and it's burning, and I pretty much just want to sit here. When you hit the stage, you don't have the luxury of acting like you don't want to be there. You have to be on.

Michael Kelly

I was in college, and I studied everything, but was really not good at anything until I found philosophy, and, then, political science. I thought, 'Wow, this is something I really enjoy.' I kind of got into that whole world of law and political science. I was really into it and enjoying it, and then I took an acting elective, and that was it.

Sean Casey

I think everybody's watching what's going on, and we need to start acting and reaching out,

Edward Kennedy

We must stop acting as if somehow this fundamental issue is just a state and local problem. It isn't. It's a national problem, and it's an outrage that Congress has been missing in action for so long.

I teased Geoffrey. I told him he had become my id, ... Every antisocial thought I ever had, he was gleefully acting out on screen.

Charlotte McKinney

I think I'm most excited about traveling and shooting and spending time in L.A. I have a great talent agency there and, you know, working with my acting coach and really putting in the time and effort to transition into the acting.

Robert Patrick

I think I have a good reputation around town as a hard-working actor who shows up and does his stuff and is professional. I like to think I have a blue collar work ethic. I've never seen acting as a birth right, something that you should take for granted. I think it's a rare kind of job that if you get the opportunity to do, you should be pretty grateful for it. So, I try not to take it for granted.

I think he regrets what occurred but felt he was justified in his actions based on Mr. Tomlinson being at his house and acting in a threatening manner.

I think he has a systematic inner logic whenever he's working, including acting. He knows exactly how he wants to proceed. It's best when people don't get in his way. I'm not saying he'd be rude, but it would throw him off. He doesn't need a lot of direction in his life. He knows just where he's going, in acting or anything else.

Elizabeth Banks

I suppose the best advice I ever got, frankly the advice that changed my life, came from my uncle who told me to go to drama school and study acting instead of taking a job, because he said the job would always be there.