Act Quotes

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right.

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don't think that actors get to do much in them. They're usually just reacting.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.

I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.