Act Quotes

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.

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.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

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.

When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.

When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find.

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.