Act Quotes
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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.
Nora Raleigh Baskin
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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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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.
Alexandre Borovik
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We can act instead of being acted upon.
Stephen Covey
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If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.
Rebecca Hall
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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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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.
Emma Stone
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Do act mysterious. It always keeps them coming back for more.
Carolyn Keene
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Act quickly, think slowly.
Germaine Greer
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If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet.
James Hansen
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you are right where you should be / now act like it
Michelle Tea
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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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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 real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.
Norman Finkelstein
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One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
Winona Ryder
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There is nothing like the whites of someone’s eyes to convince you how very true what you believe is, how very much you must act on it.
Jennine Capó Crucet
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It's fear that makes an act courageous.
Denise Hunter
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In the very act of my non-cooperation, I am seeking their cooperation in my campaign.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Living authentically isn't an act of courage as much as an act of survival.
Sarah McBride
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Generosity isn't an act. It's a way of life.
Chip Ingram
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Partner dancing is a cultured act.
Eve Babitz
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All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.
Tom Hanks
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I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.
Cate Blanchett
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
Erica Jong