1,862 Quotes About Acting

Characters written in 1990 would be acting like idiots if they were cast into the present. For example, the reader might wonder: Why isn't she texting? Where's her cellphone? Can't she have a simple paternity test? For God's sake, look on the Internet and check him out!

My brothers and I, we got with an agent and for three or four years there we did a lot of acting and I did a little modeling in there. It was just something fun to do. As a youngster, you always have dreams of being on the big screen.

UCLA did not come ready to play. Once they got down, you could see they were acting like they were going to come back, but we were ready. We stayed composed and were able to shut down everything they like to do.

UCLA did not come ready to play, ... Once they got down, you could see they were acting like they were going to come back, but we were ready. We stayed composed and were able to shut down everything they like to do.

Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.

While this is a not food safety issue, this is a unacceptable failure on our part to meet the requirements of our agreements with trading partner Japan. As I said, we take this matter very seriously, recognizing the importance of beef export markets. We are acting swiftly and firmly.

I didn't have the money to put myself through drama school, so I thought - naively - that if I wrote a play and put it on at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, agents would see me and that would be my ticket to Hollywood. I wrote a musical; an acting coach saw it and put me on his course for free while I wrote for his company.

I really like scripted dramas. My favorite show of all time would have to be 'Lost': I loved how the writers and producers were able to weave the different storylines together; and the acting in that show was incredible.

I've been blessed to have acting opportunities in movies, television, as well as Broadway, and definitely want to continue to do so.