Act Quotes

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.

I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life.

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.

Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

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.

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.

Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.

The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.

While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most obvious, commonsense reforms to save taxpayer dollars.

People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.