Act Quotes

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

I like doing a funny show where I don't have to act and fall in love with a girl.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

If they don't think, people act senselessly.

Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world.

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.

All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

One of my favorite things to do is be in front of the camera and act.

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.