Quotes of: Acting-ability Keyword

The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.

Pancho Land

The creative act is not pure.

The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

Meditations

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

Henry Miller

I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.

Tim Crouch

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

Tucker Max

[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

Laurence Olivier

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

Laura Prepon

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.

Mary Karr

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

Mary Anne Radmacher

I'm always aware that there are, broadly speaking, two different ways to act: there is acting, and then there's being, and I'm always more interested in that.

Michael Sheen

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Johan Huizinga

Acting is therapeutic. I say I'm not shy, but... Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you've got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.

Shemar Moore

Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

Adam Driver

Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.

Tara Lipinski

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.

Tony Curtis

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

Alan Ladd

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

Lord Byron

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

Penn Jillette

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

Hugh Jackman

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

Haley Joel Osment