Act Quotes

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.

It is a juggling act and I have been in it for 12 years now, which is about 11 years longer than I thought I would be, and then the priority there is thinking how can I stay somewhat irrelevant so that you can continue to survive and can continue to work and put yourself in a position to get to do the work you are truly passionate about.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.

If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

To act well isn't an easy thing.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

You have to be quite stupid to act.

I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.