Quotes of: Acting Keyword

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

James Garner

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

Jason Gann

People can care about changing the world. But what gets them to act is pressure and social reward.

Joe Green

Prayer is a heart exercise. It’s an act of communicating with God about what’s most important and pressing in your life.

Jim George

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

John Hurt

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

Jerzy Kosinski

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

Johnny Kelly

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

Julie Kavner

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

Jacob Lew

I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.

Jane Lynch

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.

John Leguizamo

Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

Nathan Fillion

I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something I'd be any good at, or make a living from.

Claire Foy

Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.

Chuck Inglish

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

Robin Wright

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

Susan Sarandon

Because I'm so much in the spotlight, people lose sight of why I'm in the industry. In fact, I'm doing all this because I love to act. I love to perform, to sing.

Lindsay Lohan

By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.

Claire Danes

I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous.

Izabella Scorupco

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

Jesse Eisenberg