Act Quotes
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
Otto Preminger
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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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I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
Aaron Sorkin
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It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
Zachary Taylor
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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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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
Alexander Hamilton
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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.
Quinton Aaron
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For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.
Albert Einstein
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Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
Gary Johnson
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Do one act of kindness each day of the year and change 365 lives.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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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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Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
Ira Sachs
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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.
Judy Geeson
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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
Katharine Hepburn
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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.
Samuel Alexander
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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.
Kate Flannery
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In Mumbai, you have to act in real life, too.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.
Aaron Swartz
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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
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Walter Savage Landor
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln
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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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Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
Sallust
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If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.
Lao Tzu