Quotes of: Acting Keyword

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

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

Bryan Batt

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Rebecca Solnit

I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.

Patricia Richardson

It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts.

Robert Mueller

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

Roddy McDowall

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

Roger Moore

As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents - aside from 'Gulliver's Travels.'

Tom Sturridge

I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.

Tina Turner

Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do!

Théophile Thoré

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

Uta Hagen