Act Quotes
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Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.
Antoni Tapies
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
Ann Radcliffe
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This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.
George Sanders
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You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.
Kevin Costner
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When you act obnoxious towards people, like on a movie set, they say "we're ready for you" and I say "oh, go to hell, my feet hurt and my head aches." You want to have a margarita for lunch, and people like these little ADs and production assistants are like, "well, he's drinking again."
Bill Murray
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Most people do not ever pick up the phone. They never ask, and that is what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You have to act, and you have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to crash and burn, because if you are afraid of failing, you will not get very far.
Steve Jobs
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The most successful people reach the top not because they are free of limitations, but because they act in spite of their limitations
Michael K. Williams
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An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
George Bernard Shaw
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Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.
Caroline K. Simon
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If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.
Confucius
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Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father...
Brigham Young
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The older you get, the more important it is to not act your age.
Ashleigh Brilliant
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A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
Sophocles
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The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.
George Washington
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I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.
Morris Chestnut
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“I think it was the size of the dream and the willingness to act on it.”
Anand Neelakantan
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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.
George Bernard Shaw
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I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.
Silvan Shalom
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If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.
Nicole Sullivan
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Music is more Ray J. When you act, you're playing a different person. I like the music end, basically because it's me.
Ray J
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If you're an actor, go out and act.
Simon McBurney
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“I think it was the size of the dream and the willingness to act on it. Ravana dreamt big and strove ruthlessly to achieve it.”
Anand Neelakantan