Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denzel Washington

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

Denzel Washington

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

Denzel Washington

The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.

Denis Leary

Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.

Denis Leary

Rosemary Rodriguez directed on Rescue Me for us, and I love her. She's fantastic with actresses and she's got a great sense of humor. That was a huge thing for me.

Dee Wallace

I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.

DeForest Kelley

I have considered myself a mature actor.

Deepika Padukone

I was getting to perform with an actor with whom I had never interacted before

Deborah Kerr

I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.

Dick Ebersol

The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.

Diana Quick

I'm an actress, not a celebrity.

Diana Gabaldon

Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.

Dennis Hopper

I was someone who was out of control and not to be worked with. It was partly because method acting was a new thing in Hollywood then and Marlon Brando had gotten through and Montgomery Clift had gotten through and James Dean but beyond that there wasn't really anybody.

Edward Everett

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.

Edward G. Robinson

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

Ed Speleers

I've always loved [acting] and I've always wanted to [do it] from as far back as I can remember.

Ed Harris

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself

Elizabeth Olsen

Living in L.A., I was embarrassed to say that I wanted to be an actor.

Elizabeth Ashley

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

Eliza Dushku

I'm a more mature actress now.

Nelson Mandela

Where poverty exists, there is not true freedom, ... The world is hungry for action, not words. I am proud to wear the symbol of this global cause to action.

Where it makes me a little bit uncomfortable is taking the editorial content and turning one of those words into a commercial thing. I just feel like the actual editorial content within a news story should be sacred.

Where I come from, that type of act is treasonous. Conn-Selmer, they're not interested in the American workers any more.

Robert Taylor

When you've got big sky, big places and less people, people act differently and treat each other differently. It's tangible. It's not just a concept. I grew up in the country and then moved to the city, and there is a tangible difference.

Ellen Burstyn

When you've been an actress for 45 years as I have, it's a feast or famine life and I thought that maybe it was time now to have a steady gig!

When you treat a kid as an adult, they start to act as an adult in the way they commit crimes.

William Shakespeare

I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion.

Liane Balaban

I've learned over the years that the best way to develop as an artist is to make things. So I tell young artists it's not enough to be an actor anymore, you have to be a filmmaker/writer/director. There's no excuse for waiting around for a job. You have to be active and make things.

Liane Balaban

I thought I'd be a journalist, and only pursued acting intermittently while studying. My very first interview as a journalist was with David Usher of Moist, and he called the magazine the next day to say it was the best interview he'd done for his solo album. I felt like a million euros.

Lee Byung-hun

In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films.

Lee Byung-hun

I had no idea what it took to be an actor. Then all of a sudden I found myself cast in a TV drama. The director was very harsh with me. One time, he told me this would be my first and last acting job. I seriously thought that acting was not the right career for me.

Aasif Mandvi

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

Trevor Rabin

We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black partner, so I grew up very aware of the struggle going on. Coming from that background, it really gave me chills to have my music be a part of the election of the first black American president.