Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christina Ricci

If I hadn't gone into acting, I would have been one of those weird runaways on Hollywood Boulevard. No, it'd be uglier. I'd probably be dead.

Christian Kane

I got my first acting role because I was a singer.

Chris Sarandon

Acting should be an end in itself.

Francesca Annis

I do find acting cathartic.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

Jim Carrey

Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.

Jet Li

Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.

Gabourey Sidibe

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

Christian Bale

An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.

Chris Tucker

I reenact everything. I love to paint a picture for my audience. I'm a lot like Richard Pryor in that aspect. I do a lot of acting on stage, acting out and visualizing stuff. I love to do that. I'm into it so much, it just comes out of me.

Fernando Pessoa

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

Fede Alvarez

I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.

Famke Janssen

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.

Francis Hutcheson

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

Francis Hutcheson

The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.

Ian Mckellen

I'm not experienced enough, or certain enough of my acting on the screen to say to a director, "You are wrong, I am right. I will only do it this way." I could never feel that, I wish I could be absolutely certain. But on the stage, it's different. I know where I am on the stage.

Ian Somerhalder

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

Ian Somerhalder

Acting definitely makes me feel so remarkably alive.

Hugh Dancy

Acting is not very good for relationships - but very good for when they are over.

Hank Azaria

I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

He's a hard one to judge. I'd like to see him run. He doesn't train real brilliantly like one that wants to go fast in the mornings, but he's doing well and he's acting great.

German companies see the potential dangers if they don't act. They're acting first, to avoid becoming prey for foreign investors. They have confidence they can manage these deals.

Donald Rumsfeld

Georgia, of course, is a staunch friend of the West and we welcome the acting president's commitment to hold free and fair elections.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come.

George Blagden

Learning about acting for camera is really quite exciting to engage with and deal with.

George Bernard Shaw

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

Gemma Chan

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

Gale Harold

I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

Tim Roth

British acting schools are diferent. There is a cultural difference. Americans, Africans, British, I'm not sure we share a language.

Richard Hough

Even if we wanted to stop acting, the Law Society rules would not allow us to do so. In any event, we were happy to continue acting for the Glazers.

Even so, the danger of acting hastily is that you may end up accidentally throwing out the family silver in the bin liner. Even if you're in a closed with-profits fund with a low proportion invested in shares and very poor bonus rates, that does not necessarily mean you should get out of it.

Eastern Europe really represents three distinct opportunities global retailers should be acting on: Russia, traditional Eastern Europe like Hungary and Romania, and 'new' Eastern Europe like Ukraine, Slovenia and Latvia.

Quentin Tarantino

Ben Affleck, he looked like a little girl! When I saw Ben Affleck and Dave Spade acting like little girls, I said I got this one. I'm all good. I don't have to worry about nothing. ... That part that was in the wall, that was the bomb.