Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wayne

General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself."

Martin Mull

You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is

Scott Caan

If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you're a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts.

Tom Hiddleston

Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.

Tom Hiddleston

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

Tom Cullen

I came to acting quite late. I tried not to be an actor.

Tom Cruise

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

Sofia Vassilieva

There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.

Smiley Blanton

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

Michelle Ryan

All that celebrity stuff isn't me. It's just not acting.

Michelle Pfeiffer

I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Acting is kind of brutal.

Michael Sheen

I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.

Michael Moriarty

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Theodore Roosevelt

By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid.

Michael Palin

Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.

Michael Horton

God’s Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It’s not only descriptive; it’s effective too, God speaking is God acting.

Randy Quaid

Acting's more of a business for me now.

Eric Balfour

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

Eric Balfour

I actually like acting in things that I'm directing because I'm able to control the tone of how a scene may go and I know, very clearly, what I want from myself in that scene and what I need, as far as from a directorial standpoint.

Emraan Hashmi

Sometimes, I feel promoting a film is a more difficult task than acting!

Emmanuelle Riva

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

Emmanuelle Riva

Acting makes you live plenty of lives.

The fix is from a combination of a few things: engineering improvements and sediment acting as a natural block.

Emmy Rossum

I like René Descartes' theory about a ball of wax. You can change its form from solid to liquid, but it's still the same ball of wax. With acting, you are the same person in a different form. You can only be what you know, and you only truly know yourself.

James Franco

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

James Franco

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

Henry Rollins

I will take the acting work when I can get it. I am not really an actor, that's always apparent but it's work and I'll take it and am always glad for it.

Henry Cavill

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

Paula Dobriansky

We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.

Phil Hartman

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

Martin Sheen

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.