Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Johnson

Your locks, your mirrors, every single thing on your car- they'll start acting up and from then, once you open that, it's kinda like a Pandora's box.

You're old when you start acting old and he hasn't started acting old,

Amy Adams

You're always surprised. Even people who were considered locks for a nomination were surprised. This year, there are so many first-time nominees, 14 out of the 20 in the acting categories, I believe. I'm sure it was overwhelming for everybody, but I definitely was surprised.

Nancy Davis

You rarely have drivers acting up or using foul language. They're very good role models.

Jennifer Stone

This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of it. You're using the voice, you're using your body, you're using wardrobe, all of it, but it's funny, once you take all of those things away, you realize how much you rely on the physicality.

Richard Riordan

This isn't a children's game, ... The chief of police and the district attorney have been acting like children. They've got to start acting like adults and put the city first.

Jason Gann

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

Jason Isaacs

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

Jason Isaacs

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

Jason Isaacs

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

Janeane Garofalo

I didn't start acting until I was 27, and that was just through Gary Shandling and Ben Stiller who I knew through stand-up. And they both in the same year offered me parts on their programs which was unbelievably lucky and fortuitous.

Jane Levy

I'm always changing and learning about acting, and about myself. I just hope to always keep doing that.

Ethel Barrymore

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

Erika Christensen

Being an actor is definitely not about sitting around on set and having a cigarette or something. It's about acting. The more you can audition, then that's the best thing ever because you learn so much and you get your face out there and you grow your confidence.

Kevin Schmidt

When I was a little younger, I realized acting is a wonderful craft, and it's wonderful when you are working.

Jim DeMint

We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.

Ewan McGregor

I've never worked with an acting coach, no.

Ewan McGregor

I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.

Ewan McGregor

I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.

Mickey Rooney

I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.

Mickey Rourke

I couldn't direct traffic.It's hard enough just acting.

Kurt Russell

Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.

Jim Broadbent

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

Jessica Brown Findlay

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

Jay Leno

French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach them how to surrender properly.

Jay Baruchel

I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.

Carla Gugino

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

James Earl Jones

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

Kristin Davis

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

Klaus Kinski

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

Nathan Fillion

Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

Ken Kesey

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

Kit Harington

I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.