Act Quotes

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.

I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don't think that actors get to do much in them. They're usually just reacting.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.