Act Quotes

Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.

I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

She didn't break his heart, but I feel like a man is supposed to be a man, he ain't supposed to be all involved in that. That's why she got sisters and friend for. Just show up with the ring and act right.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.