1,862 Quotes About Acting

I never planned any of this, so I don't even think about getting acting jobs. If they call, they call. I sure don't sit on the sidelines waiting to be asked, like a nice little Catholic girl at the dance. I keep myself extremely busy. I've written 91 plays! I love to read. And I always have something to clean.

Acting is a piece of canvas, you are the brush and the possibilities are limitless.

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

I say I'm not shy, but... Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you've got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.

Acting is therapeutic.

The studios don't make stars. Great movies, great scripts make stars. I never had a chance to grow through my roles, I never had an acting class in my life. What the studios had were visionaries who cared about the movies, about making good movies.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

Beyond Y2K, IBM's hardware business, PCs and storage servers, it's not been acting well. They are not a leader in many of those product lines. I think they still have more work to do to get into the position where the entire company can then grow at double digits.