Acting Quotes
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The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.
Charles A. Murray
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The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.
Steve Martin
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I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible.
Sarah Shahi
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Acting is an emotion which has to be felt. Some feel it, some don't!
Nushrat Bharucha
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
Michael Caine
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It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.
Viola Davis
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That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.
Melissa Leo
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That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.
Saoirse Ronan
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At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
Ewan McGregor
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There's the craft of acting, and then there's a quality. There's a quality that someone has.
Noah Hawley
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I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.
Mickey Rourke
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Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost big. There is a lesson in that somewhere but whether Republicans will learn it is another story entirely.
Thomas Sowell
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The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
Melissa Leo
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Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.
Michael B. Jordan
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It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
Michael Caine
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The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.
Alex Gansa
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Comedy is acting out optimism.
Robin Williams
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My acting wasn't the best. But damn, my ass looked tight.
Anne Hathaway
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I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.
Nicholas Brendon
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I have been acting for over 20 years and I started in the smallest little theater that you can possibly imagine and then I very slowly built myself to this point. So it is never like there is this real sharp change or something that really startled me. It has just been very gradual.
Michael Shannon
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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Music is definitely something that I'd like to pursue. It's probably, I mean, the acting and music are the two biggest things in my life.
Nolan Sotillo
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I love acting, though I don't like the frills around it - red-carpet appearances, dressing up to look a certain way.
Swara Bhaskar
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Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.
Julianne Hough