Act Quotes

Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

I like doing a funny show where I don't have to act and fall in love with a girl.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.

Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.

My whole act is off the top of my head.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

The people elected us to end the talk and to act decisively.

As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that.

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

It turned out to be exactly that, but more challenging emotionally. I looked at it in a more physical way, having to act in a chair and move around. But it really was more emotionally challenging.

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

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.