Act Quotes

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

You don't have to go out and party every night. You can act because it's your dream.

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.

I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous.

That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?

I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.

We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.