Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Blagden

Learning about acting for camera is really quite exciting to engage with and deal with.

George Bernard Shaw

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

Gemma Chan

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

Gale Harold

I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

Eric Cantona

There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting.

Gabourey Sidibe

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

Christian Bale

An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.

Chris Tucker

I reenact everything. I love to paint a picture for my audience. I'm a lot like Richard Pryor in that aspect. I do a lot of acting on stage, acting out and visualizing stuff. I love to do that. I'm into it so much, it just comes out of me.

Fernando Pessoa

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

Fede Alvarez

I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.

Famke Janssen

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.

Francis Hutcheson

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

Francis Hutcheson

The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.

Francesca Annis

I do find acting cathartic.

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.

I've had an uneasy feeling for a long time that the government simply was not acting with a sense of crisis, with a sense of urgency.

I'm over here at the Trumbull Marriott - all by myself. Today's just another example of them not acting in good faith.

I'm just hoping guys aren't reading the papers and guys are acting like kids and having fun. It seems like when this team is having fun, it's when we play the best. We haven't been doing that lately because guys have been putting pressure on themselves.

Erland Josephson

I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.

Finn Wittrock

You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.

Fionnula Flanagan

The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.

Fiona Shaw

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

Henri Frederic Amiel

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

Cate Blanchett

If I'm not good at acting, I'm not good at anything else.

Cate Blanchett

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

Cate Blanchett

I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

Cate Blanchett

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

Jean Lapierre

And that's why we've been acting in the air field, we're acting in marine sector, and now in mass transit.

A police force acting responsibly would never have allowed such a tragedy to occur.

Any time an adult is in a teaching role, they're held to a higher standard. Obviously, Holland thought that wasn't an appropriate way for one of their employees to be acting in school.

As a matter of law, Harmon should come back and say it doesn't have to be the same person. It just has to be that one person was acting corruptly.

David Banner

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a workaholic, ... I am just going to use this time while I am shooting the film to really rest. I am totally focused on acting because that has always been my dream. After we are done shooting, I am planning on starting the European tour to promote Certified and dive back into the swing of things with music.