Acting's the best job there is. Pretending to be someone you're not is good fun. It's also a non-ageist profession, and you get to work all over the world with people you admire.
I had a dream that boys would act like men for once…then I woke up.
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
Most of my act is improvisation. I'm inspired for the moment. Standing there in front of 2,000 or 3,000 people you don't know can be pretty inspiring.
The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.
Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.
If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.
I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that.
I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.
The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.
For the amount of talent I had - and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke - I enjoyed a tremendous career.
No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.
In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.
In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.
People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act
I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.
Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.
