Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kay Panabaker

I've always loved subtle acting, and that's what I got to do.

Kurt Cobain

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

Rupert Everett

The type of acting or the type of film that I think I could be best in isn't quite written at the moment, ... Not that it's anyone's fault, it's just not there. And you know I'd like to be in modern versions of those films that Claudette Colbert and Cary Grant made -- things like that.

Along the way, he enjoyed acting in community theater and performing in radio drama.

Elle Macpherson

Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.

Eric Balfour

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

Eric Balfour

I actually like acting in things that I'm directing because I'm able to control the tone of how a scene may go and I know, very clearly, what I want from myself in that scene and what I need, as far as from a directorial standpoint.

Emraan Hashmi

Sometimes, I feel promoting a film is a more difficult task than acting!

Emmanuelle Riva

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

Emmanuelle Riva

Acting makes you live plenty of lives.

The fix is from a combination of a few things: engineering improvements and sediment acting as a natural block.

Although he knows better, ... he is acting as if the problem is not in Tehran, but in Washington.

A home inspector is a generalist who identifies visible existing conditions. They are not acting as specialists in all of the different disciplines that go into the construction and maintenance of a home.

Nancy McKeon

And it wasn't until I came out here to California when my brother got a role on the show Alice, that I also began to go on auditions for acting roles.

Mia Wasikowska

All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain.

The Getty was not acting alone in this way. Many museums were doing this.

Johanna Braddy

If you don't love acting more than anything else, don't do it. It's not a normal life. It will take you away from your family, friends and life in general.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

Joe Manganiello

Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.

Joaquin Phoenix

I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.

Joaquin Phoenix

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

John C. Reilly

I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting.

John Cage

When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.

Gaby Hoffmann

I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

Gaby Hoffmann

I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.

The leader shows that style is no substitute for substance, that creating an impression is more potent than acting from one's center.

James Stewart

It’s well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

Ellen Terry

Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

Ellen Page

The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else.

All of those things added up, it wasn't just one guy acting alone,

Rick Riordan

Are you suggesting that the gods have trouble acting together, young lady?" Dionysus asked. Yes, Lord Dionysus." Mr. D nodded. "Just checking. You're right, of course. Carry on.

Rila Fukushima

I never thought about acting before I started modeling, but since then I've been in short films and music videos, and I got interested. It felt natural to switch over.