Acted Quotes

Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.

I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.

A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

Warren Beatty has always acted like a Movie Star even when no one knew who he was.

I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.

The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal.

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.

I never have been an anarchist, I've always had goals and always have acted out of love.

I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.

The American people elected us here to cut spending so we can create an environment for jobs in America. The House has acted. We have demonstrated that we want to see spending, discretionary spending, brought down to levels of 2008. We've seen no counteraction. We have seen no position that has been expressed by the other side at all.

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.

My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.

My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs.

I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.