Quotes of: Acting Keyword

I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.

Claudia Lee

My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.

Eli Wallach

When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.

Justin Bartha

I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

Mamie Van Doren

Addison DeWitt: Too bad, we're gonna miss the third act. They're gonna play it offstage.

All About Eve

Manuela: How could anyone act so macho with a pair of tits like that?

All About My Mother

Maury Sline: What are you guys gonna do? The same act? You wear the same verkakte suits?

The Blues Brothers

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

Alfred Adler

I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.

Amy Adams

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

Abigail Adams

If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.

Albert Brooks

I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.

Alec Baldwin

I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

Amanda Burton

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

Arna Bontemps

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

Asa Butterfield

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

Anna Chlumsky

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Albert Camus

I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.

Aaron Douglas

Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

Adam Driver

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

Alan Dershowitz

Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.

Ansel Elgort