Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Haden Church

I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.

Tim Vine

I love acting, but it's all just a bonus.

Rose McGowan

I was never nervous directing. Not once. I'm more nervous acting. I'm far more nervous on set, before I say my lines, than I ever have been, as a director.

Tyler Blackburn

Even in acting, when I watch an actor who I find to be so truthful in their craft, or a musician who gets up there and sings so truthfully - I like that.

Tracey Gold

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

Steve Vai

Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.

Maggie Stiefvater

I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option.

Mackenzie Foy

I want to be acting until the day I die!

Whoopi Goldberg

All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'

Wes Craven

I make something I can look at and say, "That's a good piece of work, and there's some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it."

Zach Galifianakis

I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.

Zachary Levi

I'm more of a seat of my pants, heat of the moment kind of person, which lends itself well to hosting and acting, but not necessarily going, "Oh, what is my shot list? That's right, I needed to work on a shot list."

Zac Efron

Fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.

Zhang Ziyi

Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

Sara Rue

Honestly, acting is the most work when youre unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. Its the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

Sara Shepard

Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?

Samuel West

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

Sarah Shahi

I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible.

Sarah Paulson

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

Vivien Leigh

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

Ving Rhames

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

William Holden

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

Will Smith

Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don't leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting.

Warren Beatty

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Werner Herzog

I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.

William Greider

The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor.

Washington Irving

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

Winona Ryder

Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.

Vincent D'Onofrio

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

Woody Harrelson

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.

Saoirse Ronan

I like to get far away from myself when I'm acting.