Act Quotes

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

The simple act of caring is heroic.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be clear: I believe that Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set.

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.

I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either.

Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.