Acting Quote by Mike Leigh

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.

— Melissa Leo

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it…

— Anson Mount

This whole notion of the acting career as a monopoly where you rise to power... it doesn't really work that way. I don't ever…

— Michael Shannon

The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind. It enables us to remain undisturbed, even when the situation is really…

— Dalai Lama

Taking ownership of your happiness has two aspects: Accepting that being happy is up to you and that you have the ability and power…

— Marci Shimoff

You can't take anything online personally, especially if it is negative. You can have 10 positive comments, but the one negative comment will get…

— Bethany Mota

When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and…

— John Green

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do…

— Bill Ayers

Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one…

— Thomas Merton

Too many of us hear without heeding, read without responding, confess without changing, profess without practicing, worship without witnessing, and seek without sharing.

— William Arthur Ward

There certainly are situations where I feel not empowered or uninspired. Particularly when the person's agenda is to intimidate through abusing their position or…

— Tori Amos

In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to…

— Akira Mori