Quotes of: Creative-act Keyword

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

Ray Bolger

I decided I'm gonna make my living from this, or I'm not doing it. The last time I had a job that wasn't an acting job was '88, and I'm quite proud of that.

Robert Taylor

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

Rick Warren

The first time I was nominated for an award for professional acting, I was in my mid-twenties. I was married and the mother of my first two daughters. I had been working for near to 15 years.

Tyne Daly

I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.

Zooey Deschanel

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

Horace Walpole

Simone: You act like you're so oppressed. You guys are kings of the school. What are you bitching about?

Dazed and Confused

Eddie Dane: How'd you get the fat lip? Tom Reagan: Old war wound. Acts up around morons.

Miller's Crossing

Ed Crane: My wife and I have not performed the sex act in many years.

The Man Who Wasn't There

Santa: Release me fast or you will have to answer for this heinous act.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Cosmo Brown: Lina. She can't act, she can't sing, she can't dance. A triple threat.

Singin' in the Rain

John Connor: [to the Terminator] This severe routine is getting old. You're acting like such a geek.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Jerry Lee Lewis: [to next act] Get yourselves a pine box, boys. Nobody follows The Killer!

Walk the Line

To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.

June Squibb

As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much...

Karen Allen

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

Pauline Collins

The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.

Salman Khan

I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.

Siouxsie Sioux

I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

T-Pain

The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.

Vivian Campbell

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

Dalai Lama