Quotes of: Acting Keyword

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

Danny Strong

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

Jane Badler

A lot of people just look at acting as a quick fix - they don't have a work ethic. This is a job; it's not all margaritas on the beach.

Jeremy Luke

When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.

Mickey Rourke

Before I pursued acting full-time, I had every intention of going into some form of law enforcement work.

Michael Trucco

I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.

Quvenzhane Wallis

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

Rachael Leigh

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.

Tommy Lee Jones

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

Victoria Abril

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

Kristen Wiig

The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do.

Mayim Bialik

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

George Orwell

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

Robert Bourassa

War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.

Stanley Hauerwas

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

On Certainty

In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.

Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason

Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.

Fever

Sometimes letting someone go is the ultimate act of love.

Bring Me Home

My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

Parker Posey

I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.

Cassie Steele