Quotes of: Acting Keyword

I love acting; I don't want to give up on it at all, but it would be nice to step behind the camera once in a while as well.

Lee Norris

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

Anthony Hopkins

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Carl von Clausewitz

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

Dick Cavett

By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do.

David Morse

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

James Cameron

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Jean Genet

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

Jessica Lange

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting.

Jesse Plemons

Really, acting is like anything else. The more time you put in, the more you learn and the more you can give back to the industry.

Kris Holden-Ried

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

Michael J. Fox

My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.

Mara Wilson

I had a lot of time to think in the service; I swore that, if I survived, nothing would keep me from an acting career.

Norman Fell

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

Peter Mullan

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

Russ Carnahan

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

Ralph Ellison

The last time I had a job that wasn't an acting job was '88, and I'm quite proud of that.

Robert Taylor

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

Stephen Fry

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

Shia LaBeouf

Even when I was a teen model, I didn't think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance.

Tyra Banks

You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.

Jean-Marc Vallee