Best 3782 quotes in «acting quotes» category

Jihadists are acting against the interests of every single country.

Joan of Arc should be played as a "pain in the ass" and how do I know she was a "pain in the ass"? ... because they burn her at the end.

John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!

John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.

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.

Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago.

Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Just because we're on schedule is no reason to shoot bad acting. Someone once said to me, 'You're inconsiderate.' And I said, 'Inconsiderate? Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.' It's a collective slap to a million faces at the same time.

Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.

Just concentrate on thinking and living and acting in harmony with God's laws and inspiring others to do likewise.

Just let the wardrobe do the acting.

Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.

Kids need love the most when they're acting most unlovable.

Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.

Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?

Landing a role now is not based on my looks - more on my acting ability.

Large multinational corporations, often acting through their industry lobbies, exert a powerful influence on the formulation of domestic rules and on their application - but their influence on supranational institutional design is even larger because it faces practically no opposition there.

Larry the Cable Guy has everything: sleeveless shirts, stupid catchphrases. He's Mr. T without the acting chops.

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

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.

Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing

Learning about acting for camera is really quite exciting to engage with and deal with.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.

Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.

Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be able to get your foot in the door. But a lot of time with music, you actually have to kinda be able to sing.

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?

Listening is not merely hearing, it is receiving the message that is being sent to you. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is letting it land before you react. Listening is letting your reaction make a difference. Listening is active.

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.

Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just because an ancestor or two happened to arrive here on the Mayflower. You don't even have to be a registered Republican.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.

Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.

Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.

Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, "You will never get the girl at the end." So I worked on my acting.

Make acting seem real and as if it werent acting. Just make it real.

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.