Act Quotes

I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

I just like to act.

We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.

But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'

I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.

There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.

The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high.

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.