Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Glenn Reynolds

Theyre acting like the target of a scandal,

They're acting a lot on what people might think about Bill Campbell, but when the rubber meets the road, I don't know what kind of case they've got.

Dave Parker

There's a suggestion that the roof in that part of the building is acting in very strange ways, and tension now comes into it. I hear the roof is completely safe because it has so much reserve strength, but towards the sides of the chamber will be bits that are not behaving as expected.

There's a whole lot of green field out there. Some people at labels are acting like all this is over because Apple has it. Guys, 98 percent of music purchases (are) still coming from somewhere other than online.

There seems to be some stabilization. Stocks that were collapsing just aren't acting that way anymore.

There's an acknowledgement that Mr. Anderson violated the election laws, but there's also a statement that when he was acting, he thought he was acting consistent with the law.

Julie Benz

And I had never played an evil character before up until that point so I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to do as far as the acting choices were.

James Wolfensohn

almost acting as though there has been no withdrawal, delaying making difficult decisions and preferring to take difficult matters back into slow-moving subcommittees.

James Wolfensohn

almost acting as though there has been no withdrawal.

Georges Clemenceau

Aman who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.

A lot of things could happen, but we can't be paralyzed by that. I'd like to be an optimist. We're acting very appropriately under our authority.

Kathleen Quinlan

A lot of time I was acting to nobody.

Already, you're seeing some of these prop desks acting as if they were a hedge fund. And the hedge funds will go elsewhere to execute orders if that becomes the focus for the Wall Street firms.

They maintain a visible yet understated presence, acting proactively rather than reactively. Students need to feel like they can approach them, or any other staff member, with security concerns. I think we do a good job of making students feel comfortable. That goes a long way toward preventing trouble before it starts.

Kristanna Loken

They don't teach you that in acting class. There, you do all this in-depth analysis of the character based on feelings and internal conflict. And here, you climb into costume and they say, 'Look at the blue X,' and you're done.

This is scripted, and we can't blame you because you are acting on orders of your superiors.

Ryan Potter

This isn't to play down people who pursue acting... For me, I do acting just as a fun job. It is a phenomenal job, and I have fun doing it, but I relate more to my martial arts, to my baseball, to my film study. There are more facets to my life that I relate to.

The whole fourth quarter they were acting as if they were behind. I tried to use my timeouts judiciously to calm them down.

Charles Payne

The way the market's acting tells me there's a lot of pent-up buying out there.

This certainly steals an acting style that was used in the clubs in Munich in 1900 and picked up by (playwright Bertolt) Brecht. We associate it, and rightly so, with some of the high melodrama that was used for silent films. So sometimes, with this style of acting and the piano in the background, you get the idea that you're in a silent film melodrama.

This allows me to pursue acting in a law environment.

Tatiana Maslany

I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.

Douglas Booth

I took up drama and did so much extracurricular work, like the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall's Saturday school. Acting is where I felt most comfortable and how I wanted to express myself.

Eddie Guardado

It's a little payback. He was acting like he had 10 years in the league.

Aaron Ruell

It's allowed all of us to do what we were doing before, which was making small movies, but now we get paid for it. It legitimatized all of us after the film became such a success. I'm directing my first feature that I also wrote this spring called 'Warm Blue Day.' There are a couple of movies that I'm acting in this fall. I'm also a photographer, and I've got three gallery shows left to do this year. And when I'm not doing that, I'm directing commercials.

Justin Hartley

It's all about story and character with me, and I don't care if the job is on daytime or prime time or the web. Hey, give me a good character and someone to listen, and I'll do my acting on a street corner.

Julia Sawalha

It's not so much that I'd like to play a raunchy character, but I would like to play someone my own age. I'm always playing down, but I guess it's good because it means I've got a longer life in my acting career.

For Lindsay it's tough, because she's not 100%. It's day to day, and how much can she go? She worked really hard to get to this point, and then her knee started acting up. But when she came in there, she really gave us a spark.

Tim Roth

For me, acting's just great fun. A lot more fun than making sculptures, so that's what I wanted to do. It wasn't any great calling-maybe years later, when I'm 60 or whatever, I'll pretend it was, who knows?! But acting is just the most fun I could ever possibly have in my life... and it still is.