Act Quotes

People see me as someone who doesn't take any crap from anyone - which I don't - but it's my shtick, and I obviously don't act like that all the time.

The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that's what the American people are expecting.

My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Another challenge? Getting up at 6:30 in the morning to go act. It's not fun acting that early in the morning or acting at 4 A.M in the middle of the night or in the morning when you're really tired. That's a challenge. What a luxurious problem to have.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.

Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.

Whoopi and I have been friends ever since she claimed she couldn't sing on the set of Sister Act.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Act quickly, think slowly.

We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.

I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.

Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.