Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacqueline Bisset

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

Gary Zukav

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

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.

Jeremy London

I was acting my way through the whole thing.

Jeremy Irons

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

Jennifer Grant

I fell completely in love with acting. I guess I was bitten.

Jennifer Garner

I love being physical and acting at the same time.

Jennifer Hudson

When I'm acting I don't sing, and when I'm recording I'm not acting.

Jeff Bridges

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

George Sanders

The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is?

George Sanders

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

Jean Reno

I can walk into a room and create a good ambience. I was taught all about this back when I studied acting. One of the things they would teach you is how to send out positive signals when you enter a room. I am glad I learned this.

Emma Bunton

You can't change who you are but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought act on it.

Elsa Lanchester

I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.

Jawaharlal Nehru

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Jason Ritter

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

Eva Longoria

I won a scholarship to come to LA and compete in a modeling and talent completion and was amazed when I won it. I had never acted before in my life and won the acting category. I began to wonder what this is about and then decided to see what happened.

Eva Longoria

My acting is still being recognized for the fact that I wasn't nominated.

Estelle

Acting is very start and stop.

Ernie Hudson

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

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.

Gottfried Leibniz

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

Gillian Jacobs

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

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.