Quotes of: One-act Keyword

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

George Pierce Baker

It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.

Glenn Close

That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

Charles Durning

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

Catherine Hicks

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

James MacGregor Burns

One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.

Hannah Murray

My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.

Mara Wilson

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

Stephen Fry

Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned.

Neal McDonough

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

Abhishek Bachchan

When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

Adam Beach

There's something happening in the world that didn't happen before. We are acting like one big brain.

Antonio Banderas

One way to develop courage is to consider what will happen if we fail to act.

Ben Carson

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

Vivien Leigh

Kate McCallister: There are 15 people in this house, you're the only one who has to make trouble. Kevin McCallister: I'm the only one getting dumped on. Kate McCallister: You're the only one acting up. Now get upstairs. Kevin McCallister: I *am* upst...

Home Alone

Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you. Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will foll...

The Wolf of Wall Street

If a man like that is killed, there is always another to take his place. That is not the important thing. But to act so that no man dares to strike you because he knows you speak the truth, to act so that you can no longer be arrested because you are...

God's Bits of Wood

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

John Boyega

If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman... You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying ...

Russell Peters

The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the third act can be difficult because you can get into a rut in the third act - everybody runs to their Corvette, has a chase, ...

Stephen J. Cannell

I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

Danica McKellar