Act Quotes
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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.
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In the very act of my non-cooperation, I am seeking their cooperation in my campaign.
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Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
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I still act. It's in my blood. I'll always be an actor.
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I wanted to prove to myself and to the director that I was not just a singer but that I could act as well.
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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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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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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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We can act instead of being acted upon.
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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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Do act mysterious. It always keeps them coming back for more.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Generosity isn't an act. It's a way of life.
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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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Living authentically isn't an act of courage as much as an act of survival.
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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.
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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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You must act as if the goal were infinitely far off.
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you are right where you should be / now act like it
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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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It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
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I think it's so hard to get really, really strong parts where the actress can act. It's rare.