Quotes of: Act Keyword

Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn't that suck?

Carrot Top

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

Denis Leary

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

Jacqueline McKenzie

Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

Joss Whedon

I'm definitely interested in doing movies. I've always focused more on acting than singing because that's where my true passion lies.

Melissa Benoist

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

Scott Glenn

Just to get a job is always really exciting to me. I do feel there's a lot left for me to learn about movies, the subtleties of acting.

Sebastian Stan

I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

Tommy Wiseau

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

Werner Herzog

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

Ron Suskind

I used to have a lot of philosophies of acting; they all fell apart over the years.

Alan Arkin

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.

Adelaide Clemens

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

Alexis Carrel

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

Anthony Edwards

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

Atom Egoyan

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

Anatole France

Every couple of years - no, that's every couple of weeks - I think I'm going to give up acting.

Aidan Gillen

I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.

Anthony Geary

I have only one rule in acting--trust the director, and give him heart and soul.

Ava Gardner

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

Angus T. Jones

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

Abraham Lincoln