Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Shepard

Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?

Samuel West

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

Sarah Shahi

I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible.

Sarah Paulson

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

Richard Gere

I find that you can use an acting technique when the thing isn't working, not that you make the technique the end result of your work. You use the technique when you're in trouble and things aren't flowing the way they should. It's a way of fooling yourself to make it work again.

Richard Gere

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

Richard Gere

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.

Robert De Niro

You always learn something about movies. Directing or acting, there's always something new. It's the technological thing; there's always something to learn.

Robert Carlyle

I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.

Robert Carlyle

Acting is a really insular thing.

River Phoenix

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.

Vanessa Hudgens

I love acting, but I don't know if I'll ever get used to it.

Robin Wright

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

Tracey Gold

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

Steve Vai

Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.

Ruth Gordon

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added ...

Rodney Dangerfield

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

Roberto Rossellini

Don't get married to an actress, because they're also actresses in bed.

Vivien Leigh

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

Ving Rhames

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

William Holden

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

Will Smith

Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don't leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting.

Warren Beatty

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Werner Herzog

I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.

Salma Hayek

When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'

Salman Rushdie

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

Vinny Guadagnino

You never really see me acting a fool on TV.

Vinny Guadagnino

I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.

Vincent Price

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.

Tyler Posey

Acting is all I know; being on a set is all I know.

Vladimir Putin

I repeat that, in my opinion, the European Commission and the leading European economies are acting very pragmatically and are on the right path.

William Greider

The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor.