Act Quotes

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.

I'm a normal kid, really. I just love to act.

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

I voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, not because I thought it was the best we could do, but because I thought it was a whole lot better than the current system.

The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.

This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by running with the watch instead of against it or away from it.

I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.

When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.