1,862 Quotes About Acting

I love great acting, as nerdy as that sounds.

I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.

What's been nice is that I've been able to direct from a very idealistic place. I've never had to make my living as a director, which gave me a chance to choose material I feel passionate about. The directing allows me to not have to grab any acting role that comes along. I can pick and choose a little bit.

Directing is definitely something that is in my life for keeps, and the more I do it, the more I realize how much I want to learn and how much I have to give. And it kind of bolsters my acting - it enhances it in a really wonderful way that I wasn't expecting.

The way the market's acting tells me there's a lot of pent-up buying out there.

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

There's a suggestion that the roof in that part of the building is acting in very strange ways, and tension now comes into it. I hear the roof is completely safe because it has so much reserve strength, but towards the sides of the chamber will be bits that are not behaving as expected.

By acting now to put these matters behind us, we avoid the costs and distractions of protracted litigation, an outcome we clearly believe serves the best interest of our shareholders,

You have to believe in hope, not only from an acting point of view but also from an audience perspective.