Acting famous quotes

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
-- A. E. Waite

#Sight #Acting #Firsts

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
-- Aaliyah

#Acting #Singers #Coaches

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
-- Aaliyah

#Moving #Acting #Plans

There is a bit of acting involved when you get in front of a camera for a video. Even when you perform onstage, you're putting on a show.
-- Aaliyah

#Acting #Cameras #Video

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

#Character #Acting #Action

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
-- Aaron Carter

#Book #Class #Acting

My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.
-- Aaron Stanford

#Book #Secret #Acting

I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.
-- Aaron Taylor-Johnson

#Gymnastics #Swimming #Acting

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.
-- Aaron Tveit

#Acting #Passionate #Stuff

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Acting #Done #Stuff

A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.
-- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

#Block #Acting #Majority

I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
-- Abby Elliott

#Writing #Focus #Acting

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

#Acting #Needs #Way

Well, my brother started acting before I did.
-- Abigail Breslin

#Brother #Acting #My Brother

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
-- Adam Brody

#Writing #Acting #Best Acting

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
-- Adam Driver

#People #Acting #Failing

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
-- Adam Driver

#School #Acting #Way

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
-- Adam Driver

#Acting #Juilliard #Film

Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
-- Adam Driver

#Political #Acting #Adjectives

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.
-- Adam Driver

#Communication #Men #Acting

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
-- Adam Driver

#Acting #Actors #Monk

Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
-- Adam Driver

#Military #Political #Acting

People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.
-- Adam Garcia

#Jobs #People #Acting

The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by an inner mechanism of which we very imperfectly comprehend the movements; but of which we gain a glimpse by studying their effects: and their many causes still acting on the surface of our globe with undiminished power, which are changing, and will continue to change it, as long as it shall last.
-- Adam Sedgwick

#Hands #Long #Acting

Each man has some part to play.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Men #Play #Acting

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.
-- Adelaide Clemens

#Acting #Actors #Kind

Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.
-- Adrien Brody

#Dedication #Focus #Acting

If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.
-- African Spir

#Compassion #Acting #Selfishness

For modelling, you have to be such a strong person in a way – or seen to be a strong person, do you know what I mean? But in acting you have to get in touch with all the vulnerability that you carry.
-- Agyness Deyn

#Strong #Mean #Acting

Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.
-- Agyness Deyn

#Acting #Looks #Matter

I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.
-- Aidan Quinn

#Thinking #Acting #Nomad

I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started acting because I didn’t know what else to do. I filled in all these university application forms and honestly didn’t want to do any of the courses.
-- Aidan Turner

#Acting #Want #Sometimes

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#Jobs #Careers #Acting

Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.
-- Ajay Devgan

#Two #Acting #Actors

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
-- Al Pacino

#Careers #Vision #Acting

It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
-- Al Pacino

#Acting #I Realized

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
-- Al Pacino

#Truth #Lying #Acting

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
-- Al Pacino

#Acting #Use #Actors

A lot of acting is private time.
-- Al Pacino

#Acting

Either I act or I die.
-- Al Pacino

#Acting

The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
-- Al Pacino

#Risk #Acting #Who Cares

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
-- Alan Alda

#Writing #Trying #Acting

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
-- Alan Arkin

#Trying #Acting #Together

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
-- Alan Arkin

#Years #Judging #Acting

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.
-- Alan Ball

#Thinking #Careers #Acting

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
-- Alan Cohen

#Perfect #Waiting #Acting

I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.
-- Alan Davies

#Acting #Gigs #Tickets

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

#Hypocrisy #Acting #Way

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting
-- Alan Ladd

#Acting #Costumes #Building

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then
-- Alan Ladd

#Acting #Months

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.
-- Alan Ladd

#Acting #Gimmicks

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
-- Alan Rickman

#Responsibility #Acting #Talent

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
-- Alan Rickman

#Interesting #Acting #Process

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
-- Alan Rickman

#Theatre #Acting #Nerves

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
-- Alan Rickman

#Animal #Acting #Kind

Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.
-- Alanna Ubach

#Teacher #Acting

I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.
-- Alanna Ubach

#Acting

Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.
-- Albert Brooks

#Dog #Lazy #Acting

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.
-- Albert Brooks

#Jobs #Acting #Impossible

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.
-- Albert Camus

#Acting #Nazism #Logic

The legs are the wheels of creativity.
-- Albert Einstein

#Creativity #Acting #Legs

That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.
-- Albert Finney

#Trying #Acting #Good Times

In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.
-- Alec Baldwin

#Acting #Different #Theater

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.
-- Alec Baldwin

#Thinking #Acting #Talent

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.
-- Alec Baldwin

#Thinking #Acting #Talent

Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious.
-- Alec Baldwin

#Volcanoes #Self #Acting

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
-- Alec Guinness

#Two #Heaven #Acting

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
-- Alec Guinness

#Personality #Ego #Acting

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

#Writing #Acting #Different

I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.
-- Alessandro Nivola

#Character #People #Acting

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.
-- Alessandro Nivola

#Selfish #Acting #Consuming

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.
-- Alex Borstein

#Fun #People #Acting

The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.
-- Alex Gansa

#Writing #Acting #Together

I think it started since I was born, I always had a need to express myself, you know, as a human being, and I found that it felt right when I expressed myself through art, dance, through acting, so it kind of happened naturally.
-- Alex Meraz

#Art #Thinking #Acting

Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.
-- Alexander Gould

#Parent #Important #Acting

[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Men #People #Acting

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.
-- Alexander Hanson

#Acting #Casts

Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type.
-- Alexander Ludwig

#Love Is #Acting #Type

When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my agent sent me out. It was just a commercial for 'Harry Potter.' That was the first thing I ever went out for and I got the 'Harry Potter' commercial which was really cool, but I didn't play Harry Potter.
-- Alexander Ludwig

#Years #Play #Acting

But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.
-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Mistake #Acting #Too Late

There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
-- Alexander Pope

#Acting #Monsters #Pits

A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
-- Alexander Pope

#Long #Acting #Serious

A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.
-- Alexis Bledel

#Girl #Advice #Acting

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.
-- Alfonso Ribeiro

#Acting #Actors #Want

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Funny #Sarcastic #Acting

Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.
-- Alfred Lunt

#Art #Voice #Acting

I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.
-- Alfred Molina

#Years #Acting #Suitcases

I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.
-- Alfred Molina

#Trying #Acting #Lines

I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.
-- Ali MacGraw

#Real #Years #Acting

I think I read films having grown up around the pre-production and post-production aspect of the filmmaking medium, a lot more than most young people who are in acting would have experienced. I do think about scripts in a different way. I can't just read a script as an actor. I don't know how to do that.
-- Alice Englert

#Thinking #People #Acting

I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.
-- Alice Englert

#School #Class #Acting

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.
-- Alicia Keys

#Mother #Acting #World

I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.
-- Alicia Keys

#Singing #Acting #Musician

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.
-- Alicia Machado

#Giving #Acting #Satisfaction

I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.
-- Alicia Vikander

#Dream #Acting #Able

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.
-- Alicia Witt

#Attitude #Magic #Acting

It's an acting job - acting natural.
-- Alistair Cooke

#Jobs #Acting #Natural

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.
-- Alla Nazimova

#Art #Voice #Acting

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.
-- Allegra Versace

#Acting #Different #Persons

I was drawn to acting because it was the one place that I found an emotional outlet.
-- Alley Mills

#Emotional #Acting #Found