Act Quotes
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Thinking for yourself is still a radical act.
Nancy Kline -
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
Manuel Puig
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When it gets down to it you just have to act.
Aaron Eckhart -
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 only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.
Pat Buckley -
I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
Otto Preminger -
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 -
As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.
Idina Menzel
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Walter Savage Landor -
Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
Gary Johnson -
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
R. C. Sproul -
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 -
Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
Sallust -
I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
Aaron Sorkin
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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 -
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 -
Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
Ira Sachs -
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 -
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 -
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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In Mumbai, you have to act in real life, too.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
T. J. Thyne -
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Salman Rushdie