Act Quotes

Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.

If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!

The Inspector General issued six reviews and reports on actions taken based on provisions of the act. In those six reports, the IG found that not one violation of an individual's civil liberties - a total of zero - had taken place since the act was instituted.

A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.

Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.

But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing.

Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.

I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

My stand-up act is very clean.

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.

I'd like to continue to act and also produce.

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.