Act Quotes
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Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.
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Either I act or I die.
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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I still act. It's in my blood. I'll always be an actor.
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People think they have to be good before they can act good. But ... it works just as well the other way 'round.
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The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.
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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
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The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the third act can be difficult because you can get into a rut in the third act - everybody runs to their Corvette, has a chase, and you catch the bad guy.
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If one knows but does not act accordingly, one knows imperfectly’.
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If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able to prevent much harm and violence!
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Going forward, I have four different ways of approaching what I want to do - I can generate my own material by writing. I can produce, direct, act, or do a combination of these things, mixing it up.
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And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.
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Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.
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The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.
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The Presidents Woodruff and Smith both said they were willing for such a ceremony to occur, if done in Mexico, and Pres. Woodruff promised the Lord's blessing to follow such an act.
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I was in Las Vegas playing at the original El Rancho Vegas, with Joe E. Louis, who took me there as a supporting act. And he came to see me.
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... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.
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Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.
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When you act, you want to emote and think in that language. I don't enjoy the process of doing a film in a language I am not good with.
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Living well is a courageous act.
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Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a patriotic act if you commit it in a uniform; it is the blackest sin if you kill someone while wearing a gray flannel suit.
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You don't have to limit yourself or feel that you've been limited by an act of cruelty.
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Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well, that was back when President Bush was president and vice versa. So this is not a pretty carrying-on at the moment.
