Act Quotes
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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.
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Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.
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We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!
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We were able in the Recovery Act to get a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 percent. Because we had that program, a bank wouldn't have to take that much risk.
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Act because you love to act.
