Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Polito

Acting is like a sporting match; a tennis game, but no one should win or lose. The game's the thing!

Shawnee Smith

Acting is like a game of tennis. The better your opponent, the better you're going to play.

Chris Moneymaker

Acting is Hollywood. It's an American dream. If you asked just about anybody and said, 'Would you become an actor if given the opportunity?' - everyone would say yes. Why not? It would be an ideal. It would be an interesting opportunity. But I have other interests as well.

Amanda Schull

Acting is fascinating to me. I love unlocking the mysteries with characters and finding out what would be the most intriguing aspect of that character to exist in. Figuring out a person and getting to be a different person every day, hey - that's pretty lucky. I don't have to wake up and be Amanda if I don't feel like it. You know, that's fun.

Peter Farrelly

Acting is easy. Mainly because we have a lot of roles-and they're like our friends and they want to be in movies, so we put them in.

Chris Evans

Acting is a trial-and-error business. Every actor has a few movies on their resume that they're not terribly proud of, but that's how you learn.

Tim Roth

Acting is a short, sharp shock, and then I have a two-year break to do some directing. I mean you have to stop-OK, be serious about it-so I've put the kids through school.

Andrea Thompson

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me.

Acting is a piece of canvas, you are the brush and the possibilities are limitless.

Katharine Hepburn

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself

Acting is a communal art. In the end, it not only requires the actors, director, technicians and a script and the playwright, but the audience. It's different with every performance. It's fresh and it's living. It's a great rush and very invigorating.

Mathieu Amalric

Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.

Acting in evil and corruption, people are immersed in corruption. Without the Name, they find no place of rest. In the City of Death, they suffer in agony.

Hunter Gomez

Acting has to be fun, ... It seemed like such a natural thing. My brother, sisters and I doing school plays helped a lot. They taught me the ropes.

Martin Compston

Acting has been really good me. You end up in some wild places, and I love adventure.

Liberty Ross

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

Dave Bautista

Drax isn't your average stereotypical soldier/warrior/musclehead. He actually has some depth. It was a character that I wanted to play, not only because I love acting so much, but also, I needed to play to get people to actually take me seriously as an actor and get away from the pro wrestling label.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

The three of us acting was truly one of the best experiences I've ever had. I really look forward to the days when all three of us shoot together, because the sparks really fly.

The Terminator is now acting like Gray Davis, Pete Wilson and George Deukmejian. Yes, you do get re-elected when you're boring -- as all those people did.

Ron Perlman

I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man will do and won't do, what you should do and shouldn't do. This is what's exciting about being an actor; where philosophy majors sit in classrooms or write books about human behavior, we're actually acting them out in front of cameras.

Anna Camp

I've been acting since second grade, and I just remember when I first moved to New York and I was living in Washington Heights with three other actors in this tiny apartment and busting my butt to get to the subway, walking to, like, five auditions in a day.

Kaley Cuoco

I've been acting since I was 5, literally since I could walk, and I've always said, 'I think one day I have to be in a fat suit.'

Alison Lohman

I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel.

Kenneth Edmonds

So most of the acting that's done are usually Canadians and because it's shot in Toronto, there's this law that you have to use Canadians for extras.

Kristin Kreuk

Sometimes I love acting but then sometimes I think it's too much for me. And I don't know if it is something that I could do for the rest of my life.

Carter Jenkins

Sometimes it's just a piece of tape. The other day it was a box of cereal. When we're shooting, he's not there; it's all visual effects. Acting is reacting, and when you don't have anything to act to, it's tough.

Helena Christensen

I've never wanted to do anything other than model. I'm best at selling lipstick. Acting and television work just don't appeal to me.

Ronald Reagan

I've often wondered how some people in positions of this kind . . . manage without having had any acting experience.

Ronde Barber

It was two guys with their triple testosterone running high, acting like idiots. I'm a feisty dude, and he's a feisty dude.

Kevin Mawae

It was two guys with their testosterone running high, acting like idiots.

These were sold as safe systems. They passed tests as safe systems. But?there is a way to rig an election. It's not a bunch of guys stuffing ballots in a precinct. It's possibly one person acting in secret changing thousands of votes in a second.

These documents suggest that Bush was acting as promoter in chief for Enron and its business interests at a time when he was getting ready to raise money for his run for president,

The stock market, believe it or not, is finally acting rationally. The market itself, which is a collection of what everyone thinks at any moment in time, is doing what it should be doing... I think it's a very healthy correction.