Quotes of: Acting Keyword

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

Rebecca Hall

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Sigmund Freud

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.

Edward Thorndike

The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years.

Sibel Edmonds

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

Ben Stiller

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

David Suzuki

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

Jennifer Lawrence

No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.

Hannah Murray

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

Julie Christie

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

Oscar Niemeyer

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

J. K. Simmons

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

Kenny Baker

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.

Lee Majors

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Rihanna

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

Ted Turner

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

Charles Stanley

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

Sarah Rafferty

I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.

Helena Christensen

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

Maria Grazia Cucinotta