Quotes of: Act Keyword

I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.

Rachel Ward

I kind of realized I could sing, so I played around with that for a while. And that led me to acting in itself, which I came more passionate about by the age of 15.

Toni Collette

The first time I saw 'Private Practice,' I was hooked. The camera work is captivating, the acting is the-best-of-the-best amazing, and each storyline is so interesting and different.

Rachel G. Fox

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

Rebecca De Mornay

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

Bernard Tschumi

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

Gloria Vanderbilt

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too.

Imogen Poots

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.

Jill Scott

I've loved the opportunity to learn about the fashion world and appreciate it as an art form, and I look forward to my continued education, but I never want it to take over my acting.

Lupita Nyong'o

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Mel Gibson

I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it's that important to me - is that it is an ancient healing art.

Melissa Leo

I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.

Taraji P. Henson

Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.

The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

Atlas Shrugged

How do you change the inevitable? The act of trying to change it could actually cause it to happen.

The Shepherd

Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.

Markings

With your visualization intact, commit to act.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

To find yourself different than others, you must believe,behave and act differently.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

The Last Magician

If you lay down and act like a doormat... then you are sure to get walked on.

Sebastian: Secrets