Acting Quote by Bela Lugosi

In my stand up, I think I try to be less energetic because I feel embarrassed about how much enthusiasm I have. There's something…

— Maria Bamford

In this business you need enthusiasm. I don't have enthusiasm for acting anymore. Acting is not the beginning and end of everything.

— James Cagney

I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curiosities.

— Hugh Grant

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is…

— Soren Kierkegaard

God sends such purgations to you, directors of consciences, that you may acquire the science of the saints and the art of directing souls.…

— Paul of the Cross

We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man…

— Ayn Rand

“Have not many of us, in the weary way of life, felt, in some hours, how far easier it were to die than to…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When does loyalty become martyrdom?

— Robert Charles Wilson

“As anyone who read religious history could attest nothing cemented people's belief faster than a human being dying for his cause. Christ on the…

— Dan Brown

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a…

— David Hilbert

“The account given us by an eminent primitive writer, Clemens Alexandrinus, ought not to be overlooked; that, as James was led to the place…

— John Foxe