Act Quotes

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

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.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.