Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dewey

A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for analyzing a special situation, the right or wrong being determined by the situation in its entirety, not by the rule as such.

John Dewey

Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.

John Calvin

Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

John Calvin

But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

Joan Severance

I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.

Joan Rivers

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

George Clooney

Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.

Elaine Dundy

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

Elaine Stritch

I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.

John Corbett

I really take acting seriously.

John Corbett

I'm getting out of acting.

Joan Chen

Acting is actually private.

Joan Chen

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

Jim Sturgess

I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.

Madeline Carroll

Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.

Lynne Stewart

I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.

Louisa May Alcott

John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!

John Gielgud

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

Leo Tolstoy

When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.

Lee Strasberg

Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose.

Lee Remick

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

Karen Gillan

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

Juliette Binoche

Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.

Juliette Binoche

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

John Leguizamo

I'm not really against a lot of things unless they are just pure exploitation and then they create their own copycat culture that comes from someone acting irresponsibly. That's dangerous when that happens.

John Leguizamo

Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.

Jodie Foster

I can't imagine ever not doing [acting]. I would feel like I would have lost a limb. But I am older now, and sometimes I wonder who I would have been and what about me would have changed had I not had these experiences as a young person

Joanna Noelle Levesque

Music is something that I have to do on a regular basis. It really is my life and I absolutely love it. It's a part of my day-to-day. So if I had to choose, it would be music. But I love acting too.

Emily Mortimer

I want to discover more things about acting.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.

Elvis Presley

I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.

Elvis Presley

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Joseph Mazzello

I realized that acting was the thing I was still maybe the best at. Of the things I felt like I was good at, that was the thing that came the most naturally to me.