Act Quotes

And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

I've got a tough act to follow.

And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.

Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

I never act my characters - I am them.

In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists.

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.

His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.

The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.

I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.

All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is.

I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write.

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.

I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.