Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ingrid Bergman

Acting is the best medicine in the world - if you're not feeling well, it goes away because you are busy thinking about something that isn't yourself. We actors are very fortunate people.

Bob Hoskins

Acting is the best job in the world... Look at the way they treat you when you turn up for work. They give you breakfast and a cup of tea and ask, 'Are you all right?' They tart up your face, you say somebody else's words, then pick up your check and go home. And you get days off! I tell you, it really is the way to live.

Kris Kristofferson

Acting is still fun. Talking about it is not.

Joie Lee

Acting is something I always wanted to do and knew I could do.

Martin Freeman

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

Glenda Jackson

Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh,well, I think of my sex life.

Ruby Rose

Acting is my life. It's what I live and breathe.

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.

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.