Quotes of: Act Keyword

Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.

Jason Isaacs

If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar.

John Mayer

I think when I started acting, the whole time I was working towards one day coming to America. Hollywood, in particular, is seen to be the center of this industry, and I was just waiting for the right time to come.

Liam Hemsworth

I don't act to be popular or see my face on the cover of magazines every time I go out to get coffee. I don't want to think about me all the time and what I look like.

Ludivine Sagnier

My introduction to Woody Allen and to Ethan Coen was at the same time. On Broadway, I starred in a play called 'Relatively Speaking,' which was three one-act comedies, one of which was written by Ethan and one of which was by Woody.

Max Casella

People see me as someone who doesn't take any crap from anyone - which I don't - but it's my shtick, and I obviously don't act like that all the time.

Miranda Lambert

My teachers probably tried to get me interested in other things at school, but I was very young when I decided that I wanted to act. By the time I was 12, I was hell-bent on it.

Marc Warren

All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain.

Mia Wasikowska

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

Ray Bolger

I decided I'm gonna make my living from this, or I'm not doing it. The last time I had a job that wasn't an acting job was '88, and I'm quite proud of that.

Robert Taylor

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

Rick Warren

The first time I was nominated for an award for professional acting, I was in my mid-twenties. I was married and the mother of my first two daughters. I had been working for near to 15 years.

Tyne Daly

I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.

Zooey Deschanel

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

Horace Walpole

Simone: You act like you're so oppressed. You guys are kings of the school. What are you bitching about?

Dazed and Confused

Eddie Dane: How'd you get the fat lip? Tom Reagan: Old war wound. Acts up around morons.

Miller's Crossing

Ed Crane: My wife and I have not performed the sex act in many years.

The Man Who Wasn't There

Santa: Release me fast or you will have to answer for this heinous act.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Cosmo Brown: Lina. She can't act, she can't sing, she can't dance. A triple threat.

Singin' in the Rain

John Connor: [to the Terminator] This severe routine is getting old. You're acting like such a geek.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Jerry Lee Lewis: [to next act] Get yourselves a pine box, boys. Nobody follows The Killer!

Walk the Line