Act Quotes
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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.
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For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.
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When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
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Do one act of kindness each day of the year and change 365 lives.
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Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
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It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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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.
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When you act a scene with Sidney Poitier, he listens intently to every word you say. You can feel your words hit him. He makes the scene utterly real.
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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.
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In Mumbai, you have to act in real life, too.
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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.
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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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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.
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I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.
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Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.
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If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.
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Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.
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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!
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In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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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.
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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.
