Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saoirse Ronan

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Salma Hayek

When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'

Salman Rushdie

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

Vinny Guadagnino

You never really see me acting a fool on TV.

Vinny Guadagnino

I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.

Vincent Price

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.

Tyler Posey

Acting is all I know; being on a set is all I know.

Vladimir Putin

I repeat that, in my opinion, the European Commission and the leading European economies are acting very pragmatically and are on the right path.

Vincent Cassel

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

Sandra Bullock

The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.

Sandra Bullock

Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.

Roger Ebert

In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.

Rod Taylor

Acting doesn't suffice.

Rod Taylor

Acting is something I love.

Sasha Grey

When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.

Satish Kumar

The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.

William H. Macy

What I've discovered is, really, acting is acting is acting.

Richard Gere

I find that you can use an acting technique when the thing isn't working, not that you make the technique the end result of your work. You use the technique when you're in trouble and things aren't flowing the way they should. It's a way of fooling yourself to make it work again.

Richard Gere

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

Richard Gere

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.

Robert De Niro

You always learn something about movies. Directing or acting, there's always something new. It's the technological thing; there's always something to learn.

Robert Carlyle

I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.

Robert Carlyle

Acting is a really insular thing.

River Phoenix

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.

Tammy Bruce

(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.

Tahar Rahim

I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that Im acting.

Sylvia Kristel

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

Samantha Morton

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

Rupert Grint

I always wanted to go into acting.

Stephen Rea

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

Stephen Rea

I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

Sam Rockwell

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.