Act Quotes

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

To act well isn't an easy thing.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

You have to be quite stupid to act.

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.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

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.

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.

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.

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

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.

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.

The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years.

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.