Act Quotes
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But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.
Samantha Mumba
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When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'
Imelda May
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Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.
Lance Bass NSYNC
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To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
Warren E. Burger
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The earliest we're going to see significant impact from the storm appears to be Friday afternoon, but people should not wait, ... It's time to act.
Craig Fugate
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I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.
Aaron Swartz
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Speak not nor act before thou hast reflected.
Pythagoras
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Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.
Lao Tzu
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In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.
Gabrielle Giffords
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People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.
Idries Shah
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Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
Gary Johnson
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The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.
Naomi Weisstein
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To assess the damage is a dangerous act.
Cherrie Moraga
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I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.
Karl Rove
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I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.
Callum Keith Rennie
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In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
Ralph Fiennes
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Walter Savage Landor
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Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.
Gary Valentine
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It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
Zachary Taylor
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For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.
Albert Einstein
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I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
Bebe Neuwirth
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I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever – I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.
Taylor Swift
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I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
Wanda Sykes