Act Quotes

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.

It is a juggling act and I have been in it for 12 years now, which is about 11 years longer than I thought I would be, and then the priority there is thinking how can I stay somewhat irrelevant so that you can continue to survive and can continue to work and put yourself in a position to get to do the work you are truly passionate about.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.

If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.

This bill, the Sound Dollar Act, is all about looking forward about the role the Fed should play.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.

You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you've kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling.

We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.