Act Quotes

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.

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.

The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

I always wanted to act.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy.

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.