Famous Quotes & Sayings

Riz Ahmed

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

The defendant overestimated his acting abilities that night, and they didn't buy it, ... This whole thing would have worked out better if the defendant had the acting abilities he thought he had." Acting And Actors

Alex Pettyfer

I did a modeling gig once, but I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I've never gone to acting school and I never will, so I'm learning about the business from the people who are in the business. It doesn't seem like I work at all. And the unknown is always exciting.

Wal-Mart is a more mature company today and is showing its willingness to be more open with the press, ... From investors' point of view, this is very good news. All the negative publicity has pressured the stock. Maybe this move will help take away some of that 'headline' risk acting on the stock.

Emmanuelle Seigner

I'm sure my children will be artists. I hope they will direct because it is much more interesting. Acting is great, and I love it, but it is very passive, and it depends on other people's desire, and you depend on others all the time.

Emmanuelle Seigner

My sister Mathilde is an actress, but more like a French Jennifer Aniston. She's famous just in France. She's very commercial and does big comedies. So, acting was part of my family, and that's how I was raised.

Colin Ford

Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.

Cynthia Heimel

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Debra Monk

I was never an actress in high school. I didn't start acting until I was in my twenties. I was just a funny cheerleader. I hadn't even seen a show until I was in my twenties, so I was very late getting into the business.

Lucy Hale

The acting part of me is not me. The music side is who I really am and what I want to talk about. It'll be hard for people to differentiate those different sides but I think it's possible. Once the music is out there, people will start to realize how serious I am about it rather than, 'Oh god, another actress making an album.'

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.'

Cayden Boyd

My parents are a big help, and they're always making sure I have a normal life and my life isn't all just about acting and stuff.

Rafael Nadal

It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.

Dominic Cooper

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

Nancy Reagan

I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.

Tyler James Williams

I got started acting by going to auditions that my mom found in the entertainment section of our local news paper. Then, I got a manager and started going out on more auditions.

Tammy Blanchard

I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.

Tyler Hilton

The reason I like doing these acting projects is because no matter how much acting I do, I'll always have music in my life. I love having both.

Ben Mendelsohn

I was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't a great situation. Acting was the one good thing I was involved in.

Scott Adkins

I'm just about the movies; I enjoy the dexterity of actors in action movies and the choreography side of things. You've just got to be a different person to be a professional fighter. I train with professional fighters, so I know what it takes. It's a very difficult profession, probably harder then the acting profession.

Jesse Williams

I thought that if acting didn't work out, I'd have done law school or medical school: probably law to be honest.

Christy Romano

I think what's going to happen is if - when - I progress further into the acting community, I want to have much more of a public stance on any issue.

Carla Gugino

I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

Brendan Coyle

Sometimes I think I missed out on things like travelling. I'd have been terrified of missing an audition. I didn't start a family because that's not something I take lightly. Acting meant so much to me.

Bo Burnham

For me, comedy is constantly presented as this fake casualness, like a guy just walked on stage going, 'This crazy thing happened to me the other day.' And he's in front of 3000 people, and he's acting like an everyman, and he's getting paid so much money.

David Soul

I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.

Rick Warren

We serve God by serving others. The world defines greatness in terms of power, possessions, prestige, and position. If you can demand service from others, you've arrived. In our self-serving culture with its me-first mentality, acting like a servant is not a popular concept.

We still consider this serious and dangerous and if they see any suspicious behavior of people buying suspicious materials at hardware stores or acting strange in downtown parking ramps, give us a call.

Yasser Arafat left a terrible legacy of violence behind him where people are always acting outside the law. Now, with him gone, everyone is fighting for his power.