Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Sanders

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

Jean Reno

I can walk into a room and create a good ambience. I was taught all about this back when I studied acting. One of the things they would teach you is how to send out positive signals when you enter a room. I am glad I learned this.

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.

Estelle

Acting is very start and stop.

Ernie Hudson

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

Ian Mckellen

I'm not experienced enough, or certain enough of my acting on the screen to say to a director, "You are wrong, I am right. I will only do it this way." I could never feel that, I wish I could be absolutely certain. But on the stage, it's different. I know where I am on the stage.

Ian Somerhalder

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

Ian Somerhalder

Acting definitely makes me feel so remarkably alive.

Hugh Dancy

Acting is not very good for relationships - but very good for when they are over.

Hank Azaria

I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

Gottfried Leibniz

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

Gillian Jacobs

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

He's a hard one to judge. I'd like to see him run. He doesn't train real brilliantly like one that wants to go fast in the mornings, but he's doing well and he's acting great.

German companies see the potential dangers if they don't act. They're acting first, to avoid becoming prey for foreign investors. They have confidence they can manage these deals.

Donald Rumsfeld

Georgia, of course, is a staunch friend of the West and we welcome the acting president's commitment to hold free and fair elections.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come.

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.