Act Quotes

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.

This bill, the Sound Dollar Act, is all about looking forward about the role the Fed should play.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.

You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you've kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling.

We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

Gardening is not a rational act.