Act Quotes
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
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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.
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I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.
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The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
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When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.
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If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.
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The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
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Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.
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My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.
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Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
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I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.
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I can't act without music very well.
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I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.
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Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.
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Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.
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Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
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They (the publishers) would be ecstatic, I just refuse to. You can't repeat a great act.
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Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.
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The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die.
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A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.
