Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurie Metcalf

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

Lance Bass

I'm more interested in producing than acting.

Johnny Depp

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

John Stuart Mill

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

James Purefoy

What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.

James Frain

The acting in Downton Abbey has been consistently excellent across the board.

Liev Schreiber

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.

Liev Schreiber

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

Liev Schreiber

Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.

Libba Bray

My cholera's acting up again.

Jon Lovitz

It's rare when you're actually making a movie and it feels like you're watching a movie in the theater. You feel like a surfer in a wave, catching the wave, going for it every time, there's electricity in the room, it doesn't feel like acting, you ride the wave.

Jon Foreman

I have horrible acting ability. I can only be one thing and that's it. So for better, for worse, that's all I've got to offer is me. I've got nothing else.

Jon Bon Jovi

I would love to be able to do both (acting and making music). If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a great life to have.

Lynn Shelton

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly.

Nicolas Cage

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

Nicolas Cage

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

Nicolas Cage

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

Nick Frost

I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy.

Nikos Kazantzakis

The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.

Mort Sahl

I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.

Morris Chestnut

I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.

Miranda Richardson

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

Miranda Lambert

I don't really do acting. I've done a little bit - enough to know I'll stick to what I know. Music is my thing.

Scott Campbell

The highway district is basically acting like a 900 pound gorilla with a $55 million plus budget trying to squish a small irrigation district.

The heinous nature of the crime. The cover-up afterwards. The denial. They were all, to me, earmarks of someone who was acting as an adult.

The impact of an overvalued currency is starting to become more apparent ... the Bank of Canada may have to reconsider its assessment of how much the dollar is acting as a drag.

Although he knows better, ... he is acting as if the problem is not in Tehran, but in Washington.

A home inspector is a generalist who identifies visible existing conditions. They are not acting as specialists in all of the different disciplines that go into the construction and maintenance of a home.

Nancy McKeon

And it wasn't until I came out here to California when my brother got a role on the show Alice, that I also began to go on auditions for acting roles.

Mia Wasikowska

All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain.

Rupert Everett

The type of acting or the type of film that I think I could be best in isn't quite written at the moment, ... Not that it's anyone's fault, it's just not there. And you know I'd like to be in modern versions of those films that Claudette Colbert and Cary Grant made -- things like that.