Quotes of: Act Keyword

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

Beyonce Knowles

That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.

Mara Wilson

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

Pope Paul VI

Getting all dressed up and putting on fancy clothes - all of that's a great thing, but oddly, it doesn't really have a lot to do with acting most of the time.

Annette Bening

Acting is a great gig. It pays well, I get to meet some nice people, and it allows me to play a lot of golf. I'm a real lucky guy.

Clint Howard

I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?

Colleen Haskell

When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in New York and became obsessed with that.

Chaley Rose

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

Danny Boyle

I'd love to do more theatre and acting. I attended a performing arts high school in London, and it would be great to be able to put all of that training to use again.

Derek Hough

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

Frederick William Robertson

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

George Meredith

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.

Judy Davis

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

Jesse Eisenberg

The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.

John McCarthy

If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act.

Les Paul

Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.

Mathieu Amalric

When you get a role, you completely lose yourself in it. That's one of the great things about acting - letting yourself go.

Molly Quinn

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

Michael Shannon

Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way.

Nick Robinson

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

Rebecca Solnit

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Tom Peters