Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Cobain

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

Logan Lerman

I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'

Luke Evans

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

Ludacris

We [musicians] are comfortable in front of the camera doing music videos, and it's almost a form of acting when we're doing music videos. We're acting out our own thoughts and what we've written down on paper.

Lucas Neff

I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.

Gaby Hoffmann

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

Frank Langella

When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "the courage to be hated."

Frank Langella

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

Frank Langella

There is no right in acting.

Heath Ledger

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

Heath Ledger

I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.

Helen Mirren

Acting is acting, but acting is different in almost always every project, and very, very different in this context.

Helen Mirren

They're called 'action scenes' because they do the acting for you. You don't have to act in action scenes. The action does it all for you. It's great.

Helen Mirren

When women get great roles in life, they start to get great roles in films and TV. Look at Janet Reno, Madeleine Albright, and Mrs. Thatcher. Because those images are coming at us in life, they are reflected in acting.

Helena Christensen

I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.

Helena Bonham Carter

The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.

Johanna Braddy

If you don't love acting more than anything else, don't do it. It's not a normal life. It will take you away from your family, friends and life in general.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

Joe Manganiello

Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.

Joaquin Phoenix

I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.

Joaquin Phoenix

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

Joan Jett

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

Emmanuelle Beart

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

Emma Stone

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

Emma Watson

I had been doing something for more than half of my life that I wanted to continue doing - I really loved making the film and I really love acting and it is what I want to do.

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,

Mayim Bialik

To be honest, it's considered very late to start acting at 11 and a half, for the industry. Most kids are doing it from toddlerhood on.

Steve Buscemi

I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.'

Jean Lapierre

And that's why we've been acting in the air field, we're acting in marine sector, and now in mass transit.

A police force acting responsibly would never have allowed such a tragedy to occur.

Any time an adult is in a teaching role, they're held to a higher standard. Obviously, Holland thought that wasn't an appropriate way for one of their employees to be acting in school.