Quotes of: Acting-class Keyword

Nick Fury: Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.

The Avengers

Longshanks: [to Prince Edward] One day you will be a king. At least try to act like one.

Braveheart

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

Alan Ball

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

Albert Brooks

Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.

Andrew Dominik

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Arthur Erickson

My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.

Adam Goldberg

I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.

Andre Holland

The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.

Aly Khan

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

Anthony Kennedy

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

Aaliyah

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Abraham Lincoln

For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.

Aleksa Palladino

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Alexander Pope

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

Andrei Platonov

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

Antony Sher

The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one.

Ann Whitman

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

Bob Balaban

I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments.

Bo Burnham

It's incorrect to think of bacteria as these asocial, single cells. They are individual cells, but they act in communities, exactly the way people do.

Bonnie Bassler

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.

Brigitte Bardot