What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying? — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
I sort of look at acting like that: if you have no confines, you have everywhere to go. — Summer Phoenix Copy Share Image
I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul. — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
I was the only one in my family who was absolutely focused on acting since I was a kid. — Amyra Dastur Copy Share Image
There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting. — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
I want to be in a musical. I love music, and just to be able to mash the music and the acting… — Stefanie Scott Copy Share Image
The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one;… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the acting trade you are offered nothing to work like a dog, while at other times you get a fortune… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress… — Lee Thompson Young Copy Share Image
The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
I've been in L.A., but I wasn't acting. I didn't know that I wanted to act, so I was in L.A. but… — Mircea Monroe Copy Share Image
What acting does bring that music doesn't bring for me is the opportunity is the opportunity to be completely different in every… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
The actual time you're acting is miniscule compared to the time you're getting ready to do the work. The big difference on… — Joe Mantegna Copy Share Image
In a way, the songs are written to be performed. I put them on records, but I'm always thinking about how an… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
The writing is amazing because having a hand in creating what you're going to be performing... there's nothing like it. It's always… — Alex Borstein Copy Share Image
Acting is interesting because you get to be involved in different stories and get to work with different people. Also, acting allows… — Nandita Das Copy Share Image
'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had barely had an acting… — David A. R. White Copy Share Image
The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
