Sharon Horgan Quotes

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

Sharon Horgan

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• I'm more interested in producing than acting.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Acting
  • More
  • Interested

• My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Skills

• I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • School
  • Child
  • Acting

• I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Acting

• I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Week

• I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Like
  • Acting
  • Actor

• Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Challenge

• Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Language
  • Body
  • Acting

• I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • School
  • Acting
  • Doing

• I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Comedy

• As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Work
  • Long
  • Acting

• Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Me
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy

• When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Acting

• I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

  

  Larry David
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Guy

• If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Up
  • Acting
  • Hell

• People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'

  

  Ian Doescher
  • People
  • History
  • Comedy

• The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Acting
  • Philosophy
  • Connection

• I find in film acting that however many years you have done it for, you can feel totally relaxed and at ease with the people around you, absolutely wonderful, then roll camera and a little part of you goes, 'Ugh'. It is learning how to manage that.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Done
  • Learning

• Talking Heads were a big influence on my comedy. For David Byrne, every album had to be different. With 'Portlandia,' every season has to be different. You gotta reinvent the look, all of it.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Different
  • Comedy

• I think that it's important not to take acting too seriously. It's all pretend. It's a strange job.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Important
  • Acting
  • Jobs

• That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • May
  • Wealth
  • Products

• Our greatest strength comes not from what we possess, but from what we believe; not from what we have, but from who we are.

  

  Michael Dukakis
  • Believe
  • Greatest
  • Comes

• I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

  

  Sharon Horgan
  • Comedy
  • Acting
  • Laugh