Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Robbins

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

Liam Neeson

Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.

Lenny Kravitz

It's a good time for me to pursue acting, I suppose since I'm enjoying having another medium in which to express myself. I've been getting a great response to my work.

Randeep Hooda

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting and life.

Shirley Booth

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

Shelley Duvall

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same

Sharlto Copley

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

Laura San Giacomo

I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me.So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.

Laura Prepon

Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.

Peter Ustinov

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

Peter Sarsgaard

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

Peter Sarsgaard

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

Peter O'Toole

Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.

Emmy Rossum

I like René Descartes' theory about a ball of wax. You can change its form from solid to liquid, but it's still the same ball of wax. With acting, you are the same person in a different form. You can only be what you know, and you only truly know yourself.

James Franco

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

James Franco

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

Henry Rollins

I will take the acting work when I can get it. I am not really an actor, that's always apparent but it's work and I'll take it and am always glad for it.

Henry Cavill

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

Mandy Patinkin

Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.

Mandy Moore

I've really been sort of focused on acting and I feel really lucky because great projects sort of keep coming my way. I guess the criteria that I look for, it gets increasingly difficult because when you have the privilege of working with someone like Diane [Keaton], it's kind of like, 'Well, where do you go from there.'

Morgan Freeman

If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.

Morgan Freeman

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

Morgan Freeman

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

Mike Leigh

The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.

Mike Leigh

The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.

Mara Wilson

If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.

Lupita Nyong'o

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

Luise Rainer

I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I cant explain it.

John Boorman

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

Beau Bridges

You know, I've been acting now for quite awhile, and I have kind of figured that out to an extent, where I can let it go.

You could see the change in them when they got together. They were acting more mature. They were happier.

Martin Sheen

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