Act Quotes

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

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.

I like to act with people that know what they're doing.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

It's not an act, it's just my way.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.

Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers.

The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story.

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.