Quotes of: Act Keyword

I always felt like acting was something I could just do if I wanted, which was wrong.

Rupert Penry-Jones

I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.

Russell Peters

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

Reid Scott

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

Ray Winstone

I always felt that my way into comedy would be through my writing rather than my acting.

Simon Bird

Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

Stephen Collins

Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do.

Stephen Colletti

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.

Mickey Rourke

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

Mark Strong

I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.

Michael Sheen

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

Nick Cave

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

Nicolas Cage

Acting is the only thing I ever really wanted to do, and I'm really ill-prepared to do anything else.

Nikki Cox

I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.

Nick Enright

I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy.

Nick Frost

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

Nicholas Lea

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

Casey Wilson

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

Charlotte Whitton

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

Adam McKay

I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.

Katy Perry