Act Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Why do people want everyone to act just like they do? Talk like they do. Look like they do. Act like they do. And if you don't— If you don't, people make the assumption that you do not FEEL what they feel. And then they make the assumption— That you must not feel anything at all.
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The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.
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I'm just trying to keep my head above water as I learn how to act. I feel like I have so much to learn, it's insane. The only thing I know is that I don't know or have a grasp on anything other than this one thing that's within me, whatever that is, so I'm just trying to trust that.
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It's fear that makes an act courageous.
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I try to act with my whole body and, for better or worse, this is the face that's attached to it.
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Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and Unprovable, a proof becomes such only after it is accepted (as the result of a highly rigorous process) ... Manin describes the act of acceptance as a social act; however, the importance of its personal, psychological component can hardly be overestimated.
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I still act. It's in my blood. I'll always be an actor.
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Do act mysterious. It always keeps them coming back for more.
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Living authentically isn't an act of courage as much as an act of survival.
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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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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.
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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.
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You must act as if the goal were infinitely far off.
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Generosity isn't an act. It's a way of life.
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One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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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.
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You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.
