Acting Quotes
- On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in. — Ingrid Bergman
- Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. — Bret Easton Ellis
- St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under… — Charles Madigan
- Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool. — John Mason Good
- Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in… — Curtis Grant
- Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. — Nancy Kerrigan
- If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second. — Danny Masterson
- This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. — Hortense Calisher
- That action is best which procures the greatest happiness. — Francis Hutcheson
- An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling. — Donald Sinden
- We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we… — Micheal Mac Liammoir
- Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything… — Ferdinand Marcos
- A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires… — Walter Lippmann
- [At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack
- For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough… — Carl Ludwig
- I don't have the acting skills my daughter has. — Bill Buckner
- Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth. — Heraclitus
- The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters. — Gloria Steinem
- I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you… — William Faulkner
- Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it. — Henry B. Eyring