Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Jobs

Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?

Stephen Rea

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

Stephen Rea

I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

Molly Shannon

Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.

Monica Bellucci

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private

Mira Sorvino

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

Mira Sorvino

Acting is what happens on the way.

Peter Ustinov

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

Peter Sarsgaard

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

Peter Sarsgaard

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

Peter O'Toole

Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.

Randeep Hooda

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting and life.

Shirley Booth

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

Shelley Duvall

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same

Sharlto Copley

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

Laura San Giacomo

I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me.So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.

Laura Prepon

Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.

Val Kilmer

Acting is very immediate.

Val Kilmer

I love acting, and doing it well matters to me.

Susan Mitchell

We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness.

Taryn Manning

As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough.

Taryn Manning

Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.

Sophocles

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Stanley Tucci

3D movie is tedious, its tedious for everybody, it's hard for the crew, it's hard for the actors. It adds more time. It's more technically complicated, so that just adds more time and takes a little more time away from he acting and that's kind of frustrating but to say "I'll never do 3D again" that doesn't make any sense.

Stanley Tucci

Every role is approached in exactly the same way, you have to make it believable and that's all. Acting is really serious, like, pretending really hard.

Stanley Tucci

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

Stanley Tucci

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

Taylor Momsen

Asking about acting to me is like asking about junior high.

Simon Callow

I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

Shia LaBeouf

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

Natalie Portman

Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?

Natalie Portman

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

Taylor Swift

When I get to tell a story through music videos or TV, it's all about finding the story that I want to tell, so I'm definitely open to acting roles, it just depends on the story.