Act Quotes

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.

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time.

If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.

I don't have any desire to ever act again full time.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

Act, and God will act.

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.