Quotes of: Act Keyword

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

John Updike

When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.

Dan Aykroyd

Growing up, I wasn't sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

Daniella Alonso

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

Diane Arbus

Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.

Dean Cain

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

David Duchovny

I feel like I came to acting late in a way.

David Duchovny

I quite like being mobbed. After all, it is extremely nice to be recognised. That's what acting is all about - being recognised.

David Hemmings

Warren Beatty has always acted like a Movie Star even when no one knew who he was.

Dwayne Hickman

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

Denis Lavant

I'll still try to nail acting jobs, but with 'Eastbound,' creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end of the day.

Danny McBride

I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.

Dorothy Malone

You gained experience from your past action. Set goals for the future; act now with imagination.

Debasish Mridha

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

James Dean

I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That's why I want to act.

James Duval

There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.

Jeff Daniels

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

Jenna Elfman

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

John Engler

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

John Ensign

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

James Franco

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

Judah Friedlander