Act Quotes

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

Gov. Romney said he would veto the Dream Act. Gov. Romney essentially said the 11 million people ought to just go home, they ought to self-deport. President Romney, if he is elected, is not going to fix our immigration system.

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.

I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

My stand-up act is very clean.

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.

I'd like to continue to act and also produce.

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.

I can't act without music very well.