Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Newman

Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

Paul Feig

I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.

Mark Goddard

I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky.

Marisa Tomei

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

Marisa Tomei

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

Paul Guilfoyle

Acting is constant exploration.

Paul Guilfoyle

The worst acting is about imitation.

Jurgen Habermas

I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can be vindicated.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

Lisi Harrison

Are you a peice of Saran Wrap? No Well then why are you acting so clingy?

Nelsan Ellis

I'd always dabbled in acting.

Neill Blomkamp

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.

Neil Strauss

One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production, you can do it alone. Your success and failure depend entirely on yourself.

Nichelle Nichols

It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.

Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

Joe Strummer

I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

Marilyn Monroe

Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

Marilyn Monroe

There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

Marilyn Monroe

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

Marilyn Monroe

Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.

Nikki Cox

Acting is the only thing I ever really wanted to do, and I'm really ill-prepared to do anything else.

Nick Offerman

I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

Matt Dillon

Acting is very competitive. There are few good scripts out there and the ones that are good are very competitive. You look at your options and often times they're not too appealing.

Matt Damon

Most films and directors lose their nerve and want to indicate [emotions] a bit more, to show that their story is clear. I'm not saying that's a good thing; as an actor its anathema to good acting, but to have someone with the confidence to say that should I be utterly natural and minimalist is great.

Mary-Louise Parker

I really prefer acting in the theater the most. In some ways TV is closer to that because there's more of a regularity to the schedule. You have to finish an episode by a certain day. Movies can just go on interminably.

Macaulay Culkin

I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

Liv Ullmann

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

Liv Ullmann

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

Michael Jackson

I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.

Melanie Lynskey

The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it would be.

Melissa Leo

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Acting is not my language at all.