Act Quotes

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

You don't have to go out and party every night. You can act because it's your dream.

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.

I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous.

That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?

I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.

We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.

My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.

The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.