Famous Quotes & Sayings

There seems to be some stabilization. Stocks that were collapsing just aren't acting that way anymore.

There's an acknowledgement that Mr. Anderson violated the election laws, but there's also a statement that when he was acting, he thought he was acting consistent with the law.

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.

Sean Bean

My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.

Mick Jagger

Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.

Michael Learned

I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.

Sienna Miller

I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.

Sheridan Smith

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

Scott Caan

If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you're a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts.

Tom Hiddleston

Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.

Tom Hiddleston

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

Tom Cullen

I came to acting quite late. I tried not to be an actor.

Tom Cruise

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

Sofia Vassilieva

There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.

Smiley Blanton

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

Michelle Ryan

All that celebrity stuff isn't me. It's just not acting.

Michelle Pfeiffer

I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.

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.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly.

John Owen

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures...

Norman Fell

I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.

Noel Coward

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.

John Wayne

General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself."

Nicolas Cage

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

Nicolas Cage

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

Nicolas Cage

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

Nick Frost

I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy.

Nikos Kazantzakis

The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.

Mort Sahl

I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.

Morris Chestnut

I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.