Act Quotes

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

My whole act is confession.

You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles.

Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities.

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival.

Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.'

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.