Practice following your intuition in everyday things, trusting your gut feelings moment by moment and acting on them as best you can.… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
I started as a child, in this PBS series 'Voyage of the Mimi,' which led to driving down to New York for… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
As an actor, you only get to work 15 minutes an hour; as a director you're fully immersed. It's incredibly more complex… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
When you're no longer seeing yourself, in some ways. You're as close to being as you can be.I suppose that's consistent with… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Either in or out of time, the decision of a personal agency to commit an action happens antecedent to the action itself.… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate to work with good directors who understand improvisation and understand the way comedians work. Luke Basan let me do… — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
If you're a theater director, you're not going to be prepared for the technical side. And if you're a technical director, you're… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
I believe you have to start with a craft; you don't just start with a dream. You've got to put a lot… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
One of the great sophistries of our age, I think, is that merely because one has an inclination to do something, that… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
Although I began acting when I was a child I didn't really think about it as a profession until I was around… — Allison Mack Copy Share Image
I'm interested in acting as much as I'm interested in gardening. I want to garden, eventually. I want to learn how to… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
It is inevitable that popularity will fade. That's why I must always be prepared. I don't want a meteoric rise in popularity.… — Song Joong-ki Copy Share Image
What I think has been wonderful about my life is that it has been diverse, and that I've been able to do… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
I think the only reason I've had the career life that I've had is that someone told me some secrets early on… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I've been acting since I was 2 and have always been on camera but doing a video is different because when you're… — Corbin Bleu Copy Share Image
Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
One day, I stopped hating. I ceased all meaningless activity. I completed the circle. I Set my sights straight. Like an Arrow… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
'Baywatch' sucks so bad. I didn't watch it the first time around; I'm sure not going to buy a DVD. But really,… — Lisa Lampanelli Copy Share Image
[Muslims] who are here and who are behaving according to our laws and our constitutions are happy to stay, are equal to… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Being able to do lead roles in pictures or onstage or whatever it is that you're doing in acting is obviously what… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
I know what it means to sit in that chair for four or five hours. For me, it's actually thrilling because I… — Richard Sammel Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, or perhaps it is fortunate that I have always been forced to stand on my acting ability. I haven't a personality… — William Powell Copy Share Image
Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
We don't live for realities, but for the fantasies, the dreams of what might be. If we lived for reality, we'd be… — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only… — Plato Copy Share Image
Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I do think that's one of the reasons that acting appealed to me so much: the idea of letting go of control… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
As the acting class was going on, I just realized I just knew more about cinema than the other people in the… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out… — Paddy Considine Copy Share Image
We spend too much time wondering what others may have thought about our outfit or the comment we made in the small… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been acting since I was young because I wanted to, not because my parents wanted me to. My dad is a… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time… — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
Acting was definitely half of what I loved about storytelling and about theater. So, when I get a chance to do a… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
![“What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, "You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in."” quote by Denzel Washington](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d6d/denzel-washington-1345_acting_what-we-did-shooting-fences-was-we-got-y_2344171.jpg)
![“[Muslims] who are here and who are behaving according to our laws and our constitutions are happy to stay, are equal to anybody else, or even want to help them with the better education, but if they cross the line of crime, start acting according to Sharia law, there will be no place for them in…” quote by Geert Wilders](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7b0/geert-wilders-1869_acting_muslims-who-are-here-and-who-are-behavin_2810331.png)
