Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate O'Mara

Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.

Jonah Hill

I think this movie, 'Moneyball,' symbolizes becoming a man for me, and I think my character becomes a man. It's important to me: I'm becoming a man. I'm taking my life seriously. I'm taking my acting really seriously, and it's important for me to play adults. It's important for me to change and develop as I get older.

Laura Mennell

I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

Lance Henriksen

I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.

Jenn Proske

I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs.

Jeff Ross

I'm a big fan of Courtney Love. I love Hole and I love her acting and I love her attitude. I just hope I never meet her in a dark alley.

John Leslie

When you work in television it's all about you, the camera is on you and the autocue is counting you in. The person I am on TV is the same person I am in real life, but acting means playing a completely different person.

Kevin Spacey

I don't care about my personal acting career anymore. I'm done with it. After 10 years of making movies and doing better than I ever could have imagined, I sort of had to ask myself: 'What am I supposed to do with all of this success that I have had?'

Kabir Bedi

Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?

Liz Vassey

I've been acting professionally since I was 15 years old, and after a while, you get really tired of people telling you one thing and then doing another.

Mickey Rourke

You know, back in acting school they always teach you, 'Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.'

Nelson Mandela

None of us, acting alone, can achieve the success.

Nelsan Ellis

I'd always dabbled in acting.

Neill Blomkamp

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.

Neil Strauss

One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production, you can do it alone. Your success and failure depend entirely on yourself.

Nichelle Nichols

It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.

Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

Joe Strummer

I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

Kevin Schmidt

When I was a little younger, I realized acting is a wonderful craft, and it's wonderful when you are working.

Jim DeMint

We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.

Ewan McGregor

I've never worked with an acting coach, no.

Ewan McGregor

I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.

Ewan McGregor

I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.

Mickey Rooney

I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.

Mickey Rourke

I couldn't direct traffic.It's hard enough just acting.

Kurt Russell

Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.

Kirk Douglas

Acting is a youthful profession.

Kierston Wareing

Anything negative that happens to you in life can be turned into a positive as far as acting is concerned. You can draw on your experiences - it's far better than any research.

Kim Carnes

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

Kiernan Shipka

Any day acting is an amazing day.

Kathleen Hanna

I know what a good question would be for an actor. What's your least favorite thing that you've ever heard an actor say about acting? Or about being in a movie?

Jude Law

Landing a role now is not based on my looks - more on my acting ability.

Josh Earnest

We have raised significant concerns about the way that China and individuals acting on behalf of the state of China have acted in cyberspace.