Famous Quotes & Sayings

Casey Kasem

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

Val Kilmer

Work can be hard sometimes - acting - the arts can be hard sometimes in that way - hard to give yourself that inspiration if you don't have a job.

Writers traditionally see themselves and are perceived as acting in the solitude of their rooms, doing their work. They can only survive if they have an audience and engage in the process with others.

We're seeing Japan aggressively acting to keep the yen steady against the dollar and stop the process of broad dollar weakness from turning into broad yen strength.

Katie Lowes

Acting is a growing tick muscle. I really believe that it's similar to being a musician in that the more you practice it in any capacity, as much as you practice doing it every day, the better you get.

Kenny Wormald

I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.

Kim Novak

What I always try to do in my acting is to communicate with people, to touch them, so I am especially gratified by everyone's interest in Vertigo.

Anupam Kher

I was failed in all other aspects of filmmaking and was completely bankrupt because my dreams were higher than realities. So I started my acting school in a small room with 12 students to prepare future actors and actresses.

Aaliyah

There is a bit of acting involved when you get in front of a camera for a video. Even when you perform onstage, you're putting on a show.

Aaliyah

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

Annette Bening

Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'

Andy Kindler

Why did God have to make Mo'Nique a good actress? What was God thinking when he decided to give Mo'Nique acting chops. Now we have to endure Mo'Nique comedy specials.

Annette Bening

I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were thought to be the kind that would work more from the inside out, and that the English actors worked more from the outside in.

Austin Stowell

I'm always a people watcher. They always had us do that at the University of Connecticut where I went for my training. I got my B.F.A. in Acting there.

We're ignoring the health and welfare of the people of this community and acting on the opinions of a vocal minority.

We're talking about five or six people doing most of the technical work. They have been doing a great job with the set. And it was fortunate for us that we only needed to recruit people for the 10 acting roles; that was half the battle.

Anthony Albanese

Labor believes in sustainability. We believe in acting on climate change, not just talking about it.

Adam Beach

I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.

Adam Beach

Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.

James Wolfensohn

The government of Israel, with its important security concerns, is loath to relinquish control, almost acting as though there has been no withdrawal.

Adam McKay

McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.

Bryan Greenberg

Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.

Bokeem Woodbine

Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.

Billy Magnussen

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

Matt Ross

Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor in the first place. Your hair and make-up and the costume are the tools that you have, and it makes you feel like that person. When you look in the mirror, you don't feel like yourself, and it changes the way you move. I love that stuff.

Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking

To do anything you want in life, you have to start at the bottom. I figured for the dead thing, you didn't need any acting experience. God gave me bags under my eyes and made me pale, so why not use what you got to go where you want?

Mike Johanns

While this is a not food safety issue, this is a unacceptable failure on our part to meet the requirements of our agreements with trading partner Japan. As I said, we take this matter very seriously, recognizing the importance of beef export markets. We are acting swiftly and firmly.

Alan Shepard

So even though we were there competing with each other for the first ride, we were still acting as a team, and helping each other in those days.

Jim Sheridan

At the end of the movie people will wonder: Is this the real 50 Cent? Has he changed? Is he acting a part? All three are true,

Liv Tyler

Armageddon was not an acting experience. That's why I was depressed. It was about the effects and not about the performances. I had the really rough part of being the emotional person who's like, you know, upset all the time.

The landowners said the bears were acting aggressively. They weren't prosecuted and after a wildlife officer talked to them about bear behavior, they were repentant.

The last thing I would think a legislator would want to do would be to let the general public feel that somehow if we don't like what courts do or we don't like the way courts interpret the Constitution, we can overrule it by acting like a 3-year-old and taking our marbles and going somewhere else.