Act Quotes

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.

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

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

I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.

I know I can act and it doesn't matter where you come from.

I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.