Quotes of: Creative-act Keyword

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

John Gielgud

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

Josh Hartnett

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

Jason Isaacs

When I started acting, I thought everything should be issue-based and that there should be a helpline at the end of every program.

Jason Isaacs

In college, I would just drop out of all my classes, and I would just be left with my acting classes.

Jeremy Luke

'Mad Men' is a hard act to follow. Unless you're called Elisabeth Moss, stuff like this only comes along once in your career.

Jared Harris

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

Kent Haruf

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Kwame Nkrumah

I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.

Natalie Massenet

Music is definitely something that I'd like to pursue. It's probably, I mean, the acting and music are the two biggest things in my life.

Nolan Sotillo

I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom.

Andre Holland

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

Arsenio Hall

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

Dionne Warwick

Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.

Eric Bana

We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.

Eric Morecambe

I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

Gwen Ifill

I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!

Greg Kinnear

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

George Weinberg

My mother loves it when I talk about her. Half the time, I think she says things that she knows will go straight into the act.

Judy Gold

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

Loni Anderson

For a long time, I can't say I was one who really enjoyed acting. I was always censoring it, or editing it, or analyzing it, rather than just going with it.

Michael Douglas