Act Quotes

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

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

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

I voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, not because I thought it was the best we could do, but because I thought it was a whole lot better than the current system.

The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.

This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by running with the watch instead of against it or away from it.

I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.

When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.

I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act.

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

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.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.