Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rod Taylor

Acting doesn't suffice.

Rod Taylor

Acting is something I love.

Sasha Grey

When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.

Satish Kumar

The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.

Sara Rue

Honestly, acting is the most work when youre unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. Its the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

Sara Shepard

Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?

Samuel West

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

Sarah Shahi

I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible.

Sarah Paulson

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

Vivien Leigh

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

Ving Rhames

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

William Holden

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

Washington Irving

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

Winona Ryder

Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.

Vincent D'Onofrio

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

Woody Harrelson

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.

Wes Craven

I make something I can look at and say, "That's a good piece of work, and there's some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it."

Zach Galifianakis

I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.

Zac Efron

Fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.

Zhang Ziyi

Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

William H. Macy

What I've discovered is, really, acting is acting is acting.

Will Smith

Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don't leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting.

Warren Beatty

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Werner Herzog

I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.

Salma Hayek

When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'

Salman Rushdie

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

Kelly McGillis

To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.

Kelly Reilly

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

Kelly Reilly

I'd prefer to go under the radar and just do the acting without being famous for it.

Keith Hernandez

Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.

Ralph Fiennes

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.