Top 1200 Acting Badly Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.

I was raised to think that if you behaved badly with men, you went to hell. I realise now it is puritanical and not very adult.

For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.

Bipartisanship and decency are thrown to the waste side because people want their party to win so badly.

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

I've wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. 'I've had a very serious round of dramatic training, and I like action films that take their characters seriously, so I figure I'm making it the best of both worlds if I try to bring some serious acting to a shoot-'em-up picture.

The kid who is scared is the one the bullies go after. I used to get beat up pretty badly.

I wasn't good at anything at school, and acting was the only thing that I really loved doing and was interested in. It was kind of like my only option. For me to get opportunities in acting is so fortunate. I found something I loved doing and wasn't terrible at; it was quite nice.

For years, I was either referred to as a 'rubber-faced funny man' or 'the 'Men Behaving Badly' star.'

We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god...is not helping him today.

I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

You know one of the things about going from modeling to acting is it's so much more fulfilling. With modeling, you get your picture taken, which is great, good for you, you know? But in acting, you're able to reach in and show a little bit more of yourself.

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

Donald Trump is doing remarkably badly among non-white voters and there are lots of them in Arizona.

After the Olympics I was going to a lot of functions and found that if I was eating badly my energy levels dropped.

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

In my attempt to defend myself, I was badly injured on my left hand. I am shaken but fortunate to be alive.

If I didn't think I could win the World Championship I would go and play golf badly in Spain.

Nobody ever cares what I say! I feel badly about it, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

I was in college, I thought I was going to be a lawyer, I met this girl named Laura who was the most beautiful girl I had ever known, and she was taking an acting class, so I decided to take the same acting class. And I was a terrible actor in college.

Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.

A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.

Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.

I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.

I'm definitely focusing all of my attention on acting. Modeling comes up by default, and I love it - of course I think that it's great - but I'm definitely focusing all of my attention on acting.

Between acting jobs, I'd go visit my hometown and college town to see family and friends. But I would also teach acting, dance, singing, and audition techniques in high schools and colleges. I take great pride in all the survival jobs I worked, because I learned so much from them.

There’s something to be said for being young and needing someone so badly that you jump in headfirst without looking.

I had these false ambitions - marketing and MBA. I didn't do very badly at it, but I realised my calling was something else.

Modeling isn't really a tough job. Acting is much harder: so much prep and changing your look and mannerisms. It's a more difficult lifestyle being a model. I traveled all the time. Although, now I wonder, because I travel all the time for acting, too. So they both have their difficulties.

God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.

Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians.

A prizefighter who gets knocked out or is badly outclassed suffers in a way he will never forget.

Sometimes, if I felt badly about myself, I could slyly pull out that I have this famous father.

I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.

I play a whole lot of instruments pretty badly, instead of playing one instrument really well.

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.

I'm fantastic at cooking up stories. In the kitchen, I can, at best, make tea and a badly shaped dosa.

When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly.

People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

I used to want to be a nurse. But then my sister cut herself really badly and I almost fainted.

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute at Tisch, which is a huge foundation for young actors. They teach you their methods and give you the sense that acting is much more tangible than most people think. I think there's a mysticism of what acting is, in the fact that it's this ungraspable, spur-of-the-moment thing that nobody can understand.

With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.

Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick.

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

There's this one show that I want to be in so badly. I'd try everything to get into 'The Walking Dead.' I don't even care if I'm a zombie.

On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.

The process of coming out is normally very disappointing. It's not that people react badly to it - they really don't care.

Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.

Regardless of how badly you handled yesterday, today provides a fresh opportunity to do things right!

Oh my God, I would love to go on stage so much. I'm undignified with how badly I want it.

Shoot The Piano Player' is one of my favourite films, though apparently it failed very badly when it released.

I enjoyed acting at school and went to an acting workshop for kids in Nottingham. It was twice a week after school and free to go to - ITV subsidised it. Every now and again, a casting director would turn up. 'Peak Practice' became a rite of passage for us. It was the first job I had.

I learned acting by doing it. And although I had never taken an acting class, it didn't take long to learn how to be on the stage. All you have to do is to be humiliated in front of an audience a few times. If you don't like being humiliated publicly, you learn how to act.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

You can be the best left back in the world, but if you play badly in the final, people will say you're the worst.