Act Quotes

I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.

I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had.

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

She didn't break his heart, but I feel like a man is supposed to be a man, he ain't supposed to be all involved in that. That's why she got sisters and friend for. Just show up with the ring and act right.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.