Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelle Pfeiffer

Acting is kind of brutal.

Michael Sheen

I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.

Michael Moriarty

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Theodore Roosevelt

By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid.

Michael Palin

Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.

Michael Horton

God’s Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It’s not only descriptive; it’s effective too, God speaking is God acting.

Randy Quaid

Acting's more of a business for me now.

Eric Balfour

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

Eric Balfour

I actually like acting in things that I'm directing because I'm able to control the tone of how a scene may go and I know, very clearly, what I want from myself in that scene and what I need, as far as from a directorial standpoint.

Emraan Hashmi

Sometimes, I feel promoting a film is a more difficult task than acting!

Emmanuelle Riva

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

Emmanuelle Riva

Acting makes you live plenty of lives.

The fix is from a combination of a few things: engineering improvements and sediment acting as a natural block.

Emmy Rossum

I like René Descartes' theory about a ball of wax. You can change its form from solid to liquid, but it's still the same ball of wax. With acting, you are the same person in a different form. You can only be what you know, and you only truly know yourself.

James Franco

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

James Franco

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

Henry Rollins

I will take the acting work when I can get it. I am not really an actor, that's always apparent but it's work and I'll take it and am always glad for it.

Henry Cavill

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

Paula Dobriansky

We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.

Phil Hartman

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

Martin Sheen

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

Laurie Metcalf

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

Lance Bass

I'm more interested in producing than acting.

Johnny Depp

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

John Stuart Mill

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

James Purefoy

What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.

James Frain

The acting in Downton Abbey has been consistently excellent across the board.

Liev Schreiber

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.

Liev Schreiber

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

Liev Schreiber

Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.

Libba Bray

My cholera's acting up again.

Jon Lovitz

It's rare when you're actually making a movie and it feels like you're watching a movie in the theater. You feel like a surfer in a wave, catching the wave, going for it every time, there's electricity in the room, it doesn't feel like acting, you ride the wave.