Act Quotes
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For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot - legends - and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.
Vanilla Ice -
It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.
Harold Ramis
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
Dalton Trumbo -
Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
Ada Yonath -
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
Salmon P. Chase -
Act because you love to act.
Mae Whitman -
Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.
Lao Tzu -
Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
Sally Hawkins
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
Gavin Newsom -
Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
Harrison Ford -
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
Keanu Reeves -
If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.
R. C. Sproul -
Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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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.
J. D. Salinger -
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
Samuel Alexander -
Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.
Lev Vygotsky -
You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
Irene Dunne -
I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
Olga Kurylenko -
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
Jack Nicholson -
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
Gail Godwin -
For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
Kate Christensen -
I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
Lainie Kazan