Act Quotes
- Page 2When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.
George Woodcock
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
Taylor Hackford
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Pablo Picasso
When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.
LeRoy Neiman
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Sigmund Freud
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
Frederick William Robertson
But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
Aaron Spelling
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
A. R. Ammons
The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years.
Sibel Edmonds
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
Bell Hooks
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.
Henry Miller
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
John Updike
I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.
Gwyneth Paltrow
I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.
Crispin Glover
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Sigmund Freud