Act Quotes
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You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I just like to act.
Cathy Rigby
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If you want to act, do school plays. If they're not there, create them, and the same with local repertory. They are the grounding for a lot of people. Make it happen.
William Kircher
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My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
Sean Penn
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I shall be very careful to preserve and maintain the Act of Toleration, and to set the minds of all my people at quiet; my own principles must always keep me entirely firm to the interests and religion of the Church of England, and will incline me to countenance those who have the truest zeal to support it.
Anne of Great Britain
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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.
Cesare Pavese
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If one knows but does not act accordingly, one knows imperfectly’.
Nyanaponika Thera
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If I run into someone on the street, that's one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.
Bill Murray
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Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
John Maynard Keynes
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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.
Nina Totenberg
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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.
Elizabeth Edwards
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At that moment, I do now truly believe, the deed was done, in the sense that the decision of the will is the true essence of the act.
Norman Spinrad
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I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of environmental thing.
Sophie Turner
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Either I act or I die.
Al Pacino
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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
Amilcar Cabral
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Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.
Ivanka Trump
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I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and it acted out for me.
Steven Spielberg
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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.
Suriya
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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.
Simon Pegg
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Treat a boy like a fool and he'll act like a fool, I say, but there's some folks need convincing.
Stephen Vincent Benet
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You must want to - in other words, you must act.
George Hackenschmidt
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Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
Lao Tzu
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On a studio film, you don't have to worry about running out of film or messing up your costumes; you have five other sets of it. Studio films make you the most comfortable so you can just act.
Sung Kang
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The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.
Guan Moye