Act Quotes

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world.

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.

All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

One of my favorite things to do is be in front of the camera and act.

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.

It is a juggling act and I have been in it for 12 years now, which is about 11 years longer than I thought I would be, and then the priority there is thinking how can I stay somewhat irrelevant so that you can continue to survive and can continue to work and put yourself in a position to get to do the work you are truly passionate about.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.

If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.

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

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.