Act Quotes

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.

It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.

If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.

A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I've been kissing for nearly two decades now, and I'm always convinced I'm not doing it right. Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but it's hard with a kiss.

No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.

To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

I can dance, act, beatbox and whistle very well.

Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

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

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.

I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

It really helps you to go through difficult situations by just thinking about it as being a big amount of work which you have to solve how to do. For example, I don't feel very inspired when I act, I just act. That's it.