Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Simon

I was greatly reassured that she was acting in the best interest of journalists and the public.

Dorien Bryant

I was fooling around at school. I was acting like a kid. Once I signed and knew I was going to prep school, everything pretty much fell off. I didn't feel like BC treated me right.

Roger Federer

I was struggling in the beginning with his way of acting on the court,

I would have to go with Felicity Huffman. What Felicity did was a kind of acting that has never been done in any other movie on the planet. She has opened up the portrayal of something. Imagine changing your aura to play something that people know so little about.

I would definitely call this a historic decision. A mainline denomination like the Presbyterian Church said for the first time that an acting minister has the right to perform same-sex marriages.

Kristen Schaal

I would be an actress for the rest of my life just because it's really relaxing. Writing is hard work, and stand-up is so stressful before you get on stage, but acting is a complete ensemble experience.

If we're not careful, we can get caught up in talking about what we don't know ...instead of acting on what we do know.

Rob James-Collier

I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.

Ashley Bell

I got into acting for the chance to be many different people and many different characters. I love hiding in a role and doing the research. If there is an opportunity to change my body, I will change my body. I'll slip in and disguise myself in a role. That is a really big treat for me.

Ed Harris

I got in athletics, which gave me self-esteem and made me feel like I had a place in the world; that was the initial attraction with acting for me.

If they see us acting like this, how are they going to act?

Bud Selig

I have been saying for some time that my goal for this industry is zero tolerance. We are acting today to help restore the confidence of our fans in this great game.

John Ridley

If some of us can get an Oscar for extolling that it's hard out there for a pimp, why can't others of us admonish: 'Then quit acting like a pimp'?

He was a song-and-dance man from the get-go. He was playing piano and singing probably at 10 or 11. The acting bug bit him in seventh grade.

Sophie Aldred

I always had a real love of children's presenting, and I was lucky enough to do that and have an acting career alongside it.

He has done what you kind of expect an acting director to do, which is basically to mind the store. But he brings a lot of the qualifications you need for this job, and in the six months he has been acting as director, he certainly learned the immediate and considerable challenges FEMA is facing.

The people still think that the government isn't acting in the best interest of the people. They don't think that the government is looking out for them.

We just have some information that perhaps she had some mental problems. She had been acting somewhat strangely. Some of her behavior was somewhat bizarre.

Charlene Tilton

I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.

Alanna Ubach

I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.

Billie Joe Armstrong

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

Billy Bob Thornton

Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.

I think I first got into acting through church. I would go to these church retreats, and they would tell us to make a skit or make a video and present it to the rest of the group. And I started doing that. And I fell in love with it.

Whenever you see young actors describing horrific crimes or acting out certain sexual situations, you have to wonder what kind of images are put into their heads, ... I saw Dakota Fanning talking about the tactics Steven Spielberg used to make her cry. I think that kind of thing will have a negative effect in the long run.

Jonny Miller

When you're acting to a piece of sticky tape rather than seeing someone come back from the dead, that's when it's difficult.

Melissa McBride

When you're acting in a scene, you're focused on doing the scene. You can't break character and go, 'Oh my God, I love what you're doing!'

Jared Harris

When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them.

Helen Slater

When I'm acting with great actors who are in the moment and playful and have a great sense of give and take there is no difference.

Andrea Seigel

When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one.

Chris Evans

I can’t see myself pursuing acting strictly outside of what I’m contractually obligated to do.

Chris Evans

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.