Famous Quotes & Sayings

not conclude ... that Dr. Rugova is speaking and acting freely and openly.

Norman Cousins

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life

Sherilyn Fenn

I want to learn to laugh and smile more. My acting has always been about doing things that I can grow from, that say something, or should be heard.

Dakota Fanning

I want to do acting forever. It's so much fun that I don't think of it as work. It's something I really love to do.

Nicolas Cage

I wanted to see how much I could portray, just with voice-over and just the image I present onscreen. It's a different kind of acting for me . . . It's like silent-film acting and radio acting, at the same time.

Stefanie Scott

I want to be in a musical. I love music, and just to be able to mash the music and the acting together, it would be just incredible.

It will send a strong message that the kingdom is not acting out of sectarian interests, but in the interests of Iraq and the region at large.

The US needs to take the lead in saying this is a vulnerability that needs to at least be explored. Putting our heads in the sand and acting like it's still 1961 in a post-9/11 environment is just not the way to go.

The U.S.-led western alliance, while acting as an advocate of democracy, rule of law and human rights, is acting from the opposite position, rejecting the democratic principle of the sovereign right of states enshrined in the U.N. Charter and trying to decide for others what is good and what is bad.

They were acting as an extra set of eyes and ears in the area of King Street, ... A couple of weeks ago, the union came to me with their concerns and as a result I've decided to discontinue that.

Bruce Vilanch

They want to have a big movie star in that role. I'm sure a lot of other people were considered. He wouldn't be anybody's first thought. People forget that he has musical-comedy chops. He comes from musical theater, from Broadway. That's where he began, and so he has a sense of that style. It certainly is a great big acting leap for him. It's going to be interesting to see how he does it.

Thomas Jane

There's a fine line for me between character acting and leading man acting - the best is a combination of the two.

There's not much standing between now and a rate hike. The only thing that could dissuade them from acting would be new economic data that suggests something bad is happening in Europe.

Anne Meara

I started to respect older actors when I was young and then contemporary actors later on. Then I learned respect for comedy. When I was first doing theatre, I thought of it as just a means to become Sarah Bernhardt or someone like that. But acting with young people has been a great learning experience.

Ron Silver

I started taking acting classes because I had fooled around with it in college and I had received some encouragement and liked it.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.

Joan Chen

I sort of stopped acting for about five or six years. I was at this awkward age. I felt that now that I am no longer young, my acting career is over. And so I sort of put myself in the wine cellar and I aged for like five, six years and now I'm uncorked and it was pretty good. It was the right taste.

Chris Crutcher

What happens is everybody thinks the danger is you're going to read this stuff and all of a sudden you'll start acting that way,

We don't want our screeners to be acting inappropriately, because we are in a position of public trust and if we violate that trust, then we're not doing our job.

This legislation puts a sword and a shield in the hands of the average South Carolina citizen and gives that person an opportunity to fight City Hall successfully when City Hall is acting ... in a way that is not American.

Dick Thompson

This is a virus that isn't acting in a predictable way. It's unusual that cats would be infected at all. The range of hosts here is unusual for an avian virus.

They're just not getting the proper education at the public school. They're acting out and can't handle a large school.

William Kristol

They really are acting out of patriotism. This is not fun for them. They're reluctant to step forward in this way and for good reason. ... They believe that Rumsfeld is endangering the course of U.S. foreign policy.

Keira Knightley

They're all fab and they tell me when I'm acting up and laugh at me as much as possible, which is important.

Dougray Scott

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

Donald Sinden

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

I know I'm up for the challenge because that (NCAA) game was one I'll never forget. I saw how our guys were acting in the locker room after losing the last game of the season. I don't want to feel like that. I hate that feeling. I know the game is going to be very intense.

Casey Affleck

I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was Gus, it was hard to say no.

I have said to the Senate that you're acting in such a way that it is going to be viewed as precedent in other legal situations.

Julie Benz

I really feel that I was given the opportunity to grow as an actress and really challenge myself and use her almost as an acting school in a way.

Dave Wannstedt

I pulled into West Allegheny and we were 1-4 but I went in there acting like we were 5-0.

Mike Birbiglia

In terms of comedy, there was a Seinfeldian era of comedy that I love but got played out. Seinfeld was great, but then after him it was people acting like Seinfeld and making observations that we felt like we'd kind of heard before, and then you're seeing Seinfeldian comedy in commercials. Suddenly everything is observational funniness.

Dallas Roberts

In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.