Famous Quotes & Sayings

Some people see acting as a kind of stroll on the beach, and some people see it as a kind of skydive. And I've had lots of strolls on the beach in my life, so I'd like to do a skydive.

Russia wants to win global clout by acting as a mediator amid growing tensions between the West and the Islamic world.

Roots are acting like conduits for water connecting deep ground or soil water reserves to the shallow soil water.

Jermaine Dupri

Everybody's got to stop acting like they wear bandanas all day, every day. You've got to face the facts that you do sit on the phone sometimes.

Michael Foley

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The best thing you can see as a worship leader is people getting involved and acting spontaneously.

David Sobel

The Administration has confirmed the existence of the program, but released very little information that sheds light on the key question (of) whether the government is acting illegally.

Boris Yeltsin

That is why...I have to present acting ministers to the president and I am already doing so.

Sydney is acting as a major drag on the NSW economy and the weak update on major renovations is just one among a plethora of indicators pointing to NSW having slipped behind the pack.

E. P. Thompson

It's unfortunate that the acting secretary seems to indicate that there is not any urgency to the levee situation.

Cramer's moving the markets like the star Internet analysts did during the tech bubble. He's got a big following of people who think they're acting responsibly by following Cramer's advice--but in reality he's dangerous to their health.

You, the aspirant for supreme mind, progeny, fortune and wealth..... acting in accordance with your husband's wishes, happily pave your way towards immortality.

The North Koreans have every intention to lie, steal and cheat as much as they can get away with and as they have been doing for decades. But they would also say we've been cheating them through the whole process or acting in bad faith.

James Dean

It was an accident, although Ive been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for peoples neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actors course is set even before hes out of the cradle.

It's a cause that is worth fighting, it's a noble and historic cause, ... And it's one in which our troops understand the importance of the mission. While these personal sacrifices are tremendous, the consequences of not acting for freedom and for liberty are certainly far greater.

It's acting like it got a best-picture nomination. Maybe that's a sign it should have.

I told Karl you just gotta let me loose, and if I start acting up you can put me back in my cage.

James Dean

It's a nice acting challenge for me because the character's much older and he's Jewish and he's quite lonely. At first he feels like his home is being invaded by this person and they have a few spats, but then he discovers the younger character is also Jewish and he grabs a hold of that. (Gardiner) has other secrets that at first tear us apart then bring us together at the end.

Melissa Ordway

I took theatre and stuff in college, then I took a bunch of different acting classes here in L.A. Sometimes when I have a hard audition, I'll call my acting coach and he'll come help me. I actually get more nervous in acting class than I do at an actual audition. It's actually a really great way to get over your nerves.

Harry Smith

It was fantastic, ... The piece itself is so engaging and the characters are so rich and well-developed. I felt really reinvigorated about acting and why I was doing it to begin with.

It was always hard in those days for the university theater wing to get enough boys to match the number of girls you had in those acting classes.

Mickey Rourke

It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill.

John Proctor

It's definitely a key acting role, ... It's all about the words; there's not much blocking. If you want to see good acting, this would be a play to see.

John Leguizamo

It's always the same thing that drives me -- a type of character or personality that I've never done before, or that allows me to try out some new acting technique. So I'm always experimenting and looking for that interesting hook.

Raymond Chandler

Its idea of ''production value'' is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler.

Heath Ledger

It was an opportunity not to take acting too seriously. We obviously weren't taking Casanova too seriously. Essentially we were borrowing his name and his legend and just having fun with it.

It was my dad who caught the acting bug. He proceeded to do play after play after play.

Nastassja Kinski

It was never my intention to remain an actress all the time, so maybe I'll stop acting pretty soon.

John Ashcroft

It may well be that we have opportunists in the United States or terrorists in the United States who are acting in ways that are unrelated.

It's another way of continuing the racism in the drug war. Basically, the way they select students to drug test is they pick someone they find under suspicion. What's to say a person is suspicious? Is that person acting erratically? Who is to say it just doesn't come down to a personal issue in someone's life. To use that to invade someone's privacy and drug test is way off base.

Dylan Penn

It's funny because I've resisted acting as a career for most of my life. But both my parents told me if I ever want to direct, I should act first because no director should direct until they know what it's like to be in the actor's shoes.

J. C. Watts

It's scary, ... I was so nervous about doing anything that would make a child feel uncomfortable ... so we tried to work out all these systems, you know, 'Just give me the signal that we're not acting anymore.'

Robert Thompson

That's really fascinating. It's method acting gone wild ù a character who's not only reading lines and performing in the show but also continuing to perform outside the confines of the screen.