Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Farr

I began auditioning for acting jobs at the ripe old age of 12. Thirty years later, including a 15-year run on television, I sometimes just get offers for work. Often, however, I am still required to run pell-mell around Los Angeles or New York, interviewing for film and TV jobs.

Ice T

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

He basically questioned the sanity of RIM, and said it wasn't acting very rationally. His prodding of the parties worked.

John Miller

He came around the corner for this concert scene and he just had the swagger and confidence, ... He was Johnny Cash - badass. For an amateur like me, it was suddenly clear what real acting is.

Hugh Laurie

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

Matthew Arnold

If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them. A class of men may often itself not either fully understand its wants, or adequately express them; but it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better chance of success.

Aly Michalka

I feel like music and acting are so much my love, and they're so much equal in my eyes. I couldn't really choose between the two.

Melissa Benoist

If I had any advice for my 16-year-old self, it would just be to stay strong, because acting is not an easy lifestyle, especially when you are starting out. That being said, it definitely makes it all worth it when it does happen.

Carl Edwards

I definitely think acting is something I'd like to do more of. I had such a blast being on the set of 24 .

Randy Couture

I definitely see myself continuing to transition into more acting roles. I'll always be a coach. I'm always going to have a training center, always going to work with guys that are looking for some input and want help. I love commentating, and that's something I can always go back to and enjoy doing.

Adrienne Shelly

I did a lot of acting when I was a child. I was very shy - the kind of kid who ran into a corner and cried on parents' visiting day.

Randy Jackson

I can't wait for your acting career to start. Your face -- the camera loves you.

I caught a streak at the end of last year that gave me confidence, and I went into this season working to build on what I accomplished then. I'm acting on what I want to do rather than reacting to the pitch. It's contagious. Once you get going, it feels good.

Jeremy Corbyn

I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people into our campaign is that they were written off by political parties but they had never written off politics, and what we have is a huge number of young people, very enthusiastic and brimming with ideas. Those ideas have got to be heard.

I appreciate the conference office acting upon my request to review the matter and their willingness to hold officials accountable for their work.

Mike Rogers

I appreciate President Bush for acting quickly to bring federal disaster aid to the citizens, businesses and farmers of Alabama.

Matt Schulze

I approach music and acting the same way, through spontaneous improvisation. I never really try to rehearse anything, do it over and over, except when we're inside a take.

Ben Kingsley

I am not a classical actor; I am an entertainer. I fell into classical acting by mistake and actually started out as a singer. I wrote the music for a musical play and it transferred to London and I sang the songs in London.

Rick Springfield

I am a bit more of a whore with my acting than I am with my music. I am not a whore with my music.

Kofi Annan

How this crisis is resolved will affect greatly the course of peace and security in the region and the world, ... I commend the council for acting today with purpose and resolve.

Sean Penn

I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema.

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.

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.

Jack Nicholson

Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.

Jack Nicholson

Once I got started acting I loved it.

Jack Nicholson

Just let the wardrobe do the acting.

Isabel Lucas

Acting kind of chose me.