Famous Quotes & Sayings

Spencer Tracy

Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.

We like technology still because it is one of the better acting groups, ... We've seen a good push with the Internet stocks, but we're seeing with a bit of a warning that you have to be quick here if things start to deteriorate, to get out.

Denzel Washington

Family is life; acting is making a living.

Andy Serkis

People find it hard to get their heads around nominating a computer-generated character, but every time you see Gollum on the screen, that's me who is acting up there - even if it is behind a mass of pixels - and it's my voice you hear.

Penelope Cruz

I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else. My parents also took me to ballet school, and there I think I was able to start communicating those feelings or emotions - I danced for so many years.

Pedro Pascal

The acting training in school was great, but it was mostly fun being young and in New York. Because my upbringing was so transient, New York ended up being my home. I've been living in New York longer than I have anywhere else in my life.

Mary J. Blige

Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.

Judith Butler

When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.

Richard Eyre

The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.

Morgan Saylor

You know how when you read a book and it becomes a movie, and it's different than you pictured? In some ways, acting is a lot like that.

Tom Wilkinson

You know grief. You've had it in your own life. But I don't use it directly. It's processed through my acting instincts, the bit of me that knows about those things, so when it comes out it's not my grief that you're seeing, it's the grief of that character. It's active imagination.

Michael Biehn

When I first moved out to Los Angeles I was thinking, you know, I wanted to be an actor but I didn't really know what acting was about. I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I'd be happy.

Christopher Walken

You know ... acting is not very difficult, once you know how to do it, ... And that's ... so beautiful, because you can say that about anything: It's not difficult, once you know how.

Ludwig von Mises

Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.

Halston Sage

I did grow up in Los Angeles. I actually didn't start acting until I was sixteen, so I was very removed from the Hollywood scene. I had always been in my school plays, but my mom and dad wanted to keep me out of the business until I was old enough to know who I was and not let anyone change me.

Michael Moriarty

I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.

Dwight Schultz

I wasn't onstage projecting to the back row. I was acting for the lens, which was right in front of me. I learnt a lot from that job.

I wasn't asked to go, and I'm not one to just show up, ... I've since been told that it's dangerous for an actress or actor to meet their subject. Many times they start doing an impersonation of the person rather than acting the part. Kathy said she'd seen me on television but didn't want me on the set for that reason.

My brothers and I, we got with an agent and for three or four years there we did a lot of acting and I did a little modeling in there. It was just something fun to do. As a youngster, you always have dreams of being on the big screen.

My cell phone is the only one that really works since none of the 504 numbers are really working, so I am acting as the middleman for my family and everyone is communicating through me.

Microsoft has been acting a little different lately. It seems to be awakening from its long slumber.

Who I am today speaks far greater than what anyone can say about me. I thank God every day that I am alive and that I am able to dedicate my life to teaching others, enriching lives and acting as a vehicle for empowerment.

When talking about the motion of charge current, you can think of the electrons as acting like a swarm of bees moving in one direction. Within that swarm, individual bees might be colliding, but momentum is conserved with each collision so that the total motion of the swarm is unaffected. When talking about the motion of spin current, the electrons act more like a swarm of honey bees and a swarm of bumble bees trying to move through one another. As the bees in these two populations collide, there is an exchange of momentum that slows the relative motion of each. Eventually both swarms may move in a single direction, but the overall effect has been a drag on their collective motion.

Using Hollywood actors in games brings good acting. The real benefit, beyond the extra marketing attention, is that you have someone who's good at acting delivering the performance. It comes down to the talent in the game.

Sonny Perdue

Wait for Monday for what? We're acting on information that we believe - that there are likely to be supply disruptions.

Wage hike proponents may be acting with the best of intentions, however, it is impossible to escape the drastic negative economic consequences of job loss for the least-educated. Such a measure would actually hurt the people it is intended to help.

William Shakespeare

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?

As God commands us men to teach your wife, to teach your children - to be the spiritual leader of your family - you're acting as a priest. Now, unfortunately, unfortunately, in too many Christian homes, the role of the priest is assumed by the wife.

Randy Harrison

It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

We hoped they (Chinese officials) would be aggressive in acting to halt the sales, ... but I can't say I have any evidence.

Edward Kennedy

We must stop acting as if somehow this fundamental issue is just a state and local problem. It isn't. It's a national problem, and it's an outrage that Congress has been missing in action for so long.

Malcolm Gladwell

We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

William Shakespeare

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.