Act Quotes
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How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.
Rand Paul -
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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Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
Damian Lewis -
I have grown up watching Bollywood movies, and I would love to act in them.
Navi Rawat -
Thinking for yourself is still a radical act.
Nancy Kline -
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 -
My goal is to continue to act and still be a professional kiteboarder.
Maika Monroe -
You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.
Patsy Cline
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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 -
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Walter Savage Landor -
The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.
Pat Buckley -
I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
Katharine Hepburn -
My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!
Octavia Spencer
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Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
Ira Sachs -
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 -
When it gets down to it you just have to act.
Aaron Eckhart -
Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
Victor Papanek -
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
R. C. Sproul -
I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
Aaron Sorkin
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Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
Gary Johnson -
Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.
Quinton Aaron -
It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
A library implies an act of faith.
Victor Hugo