300 Quotes on Act

• Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

  Author: Zig Ziglar

• I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.

  Author: Michael Zaslow

• I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

  Author: Neil Young

• Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments.

  Author: Alan Young

• There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

  Author: Tom Wolfe

• When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.

  Author: Luke Wilson

• When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.

  Author: Robbie Williams

• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.

  Author: Richard Widmark

• Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• Rosemary was a little nervous about going onstage, but she went on with us. I saw her at a party, and a couple of months later they called me about doing the act.

  Author: Margaret Whiting

• When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

  Author: E. White

• We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

  Author: Bryan White

• Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

  Author: Irvine Welsh

• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  Author: Orson Welles

• I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

  Author: Orson Welles

• His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• You have to be quite stupid to act.

  Author: Rachel Weisz

• Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't.

  Author: Bernice Weissbourd

• A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

  Author: Simone Weil

• In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

  Author: Paul Watzlawick

• There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.

  Author: Naomi Watts

• So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

  Author: Alan Watts

• Yeah, I went to ACT for a while. It was great.

  Author: Gedde Watanabe

• I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.

  Author: John Warner

• I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act.

  Author: Gerald Walpin

• I always wanted to tell stories and act.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

  Author: Bernard Voto

• I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

  Author: Luther Vandross

• An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

  Author: John Updike

• To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

  Author: John Updike

• I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly.

  Author: Alanna Ubach

• I've always wanted to act since I was little.

  Author: Alanna Ubach

• The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.

  Author: Tina Turner

• As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

  Author: Dalton Trumbo

• I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.

  Author: Obie Trice

• The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

  Author: Brian Tracy

• The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

  Author: Jean Toomer

• I didn't plan to act, but I'm glad I'm doing it - and I just want to keep getting better.

  Author: Meg Tilly

• I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

  Author: Edward Thorndike

• We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

  Author: Clarence Thomas

• It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

  Author: Zachary Taylor

• Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

  Author: Deborah Tannen

• Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

  Author: Thomas Szasz

• The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

  Author: Max Sydow

• I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.

  Author: Ethan Suplee

• If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

  Author: Nicole Sullivan

• It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

  Author: Harry Sullivan

• I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

  Author: Lusia Strus

• If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.

  Author: Sharon Stone

• Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.

  Author: Bram Stoker

• To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

  Author: Richard Steele

• My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interest earned in savings accounts, such as passbook savings accounts or bank certificates of deposit.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

  Author: Aaron Spelling

• But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.

  Author: Ronnie Spector

• The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

  Author: Robert Smithson

• The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.

  Author: B. Skinner

• I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.

  Author: Paul Simon

• I don't want to be known as the Aerosmith chick, but it's fun to put on the boots and makeup and act like a tough girl.

  Author: Alicia Silverstone

• The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.

  Author: James Shirley

• Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.

  Author: Allan Sherman

• The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

  Author: Barbara Sher

• Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

  Author: George Shaw

• The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

  Author: George Shaw

• I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.

  Author: Silvan Shalom

• The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

  Author: Merle Shain

• There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.

  Author: Jeanne Shaheen

• I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.

  Author: Ted Shackelford

• There are three rape scenes that I've had to act in, and none of them have gotten to film. I don't think it's something that should be promoted in any way.

  Author: Joan Severance

• Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

  Author: Andres Serrano

• Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

  Author: Frank Serpico

• In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

  Author: Charles Secondat

• I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.

  Author: William Scott

• It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

  Author: David Schwartz

• Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.

  Author: Allyson Schwartz

• And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• We must act out passion before we can feel it.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

  Author: Peter Sarsgaard

• The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

  Author: Nathalie Sarraute

• The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.

  Author: Walter Salles

• While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most obvious, commonsense reforms to save taxpayer dollars.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture.

  Author: Mark Rydell

• Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

  Author: Salman Rushdie

• Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared.

  Author: Kelly Rowland

• I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

  Author: Karl Rove

• When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

  Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

• The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough.

  Author: Mike Rogers

• My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they're my best friends.

  Author: Joe Rogan

• It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

  Author: John Robinson

• You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is.

  Author: Lord Robertson

• Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

  Author: Frederick Robertson

• We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

  Author: Tony Robbins

• We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

  Author: Tony Robbins

• It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

  Author: Rainer Rilke

• I always wanted to act.

  Author: Adam Rickitt

• I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room.

  Author: Michael Richards

• But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing.

  Author: Little Richard

• I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

  Author: Burt Reynolds

• Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

  Author: Jean Renoir

• We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.

  Author: Janet Reno

• The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

  Author: Keanu Reeves

• I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

  Author: Lou Reed

• Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.

  Author: John Redmond

• I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

  Author: Charles Rangel

• There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.

  Author: James Randi

• Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.

  Author: Akbar Rafsanjani

• After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.

  Author: Raymond Queneau

• Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

  Author: Pythagoras

• One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

  Author: Manuel Puig

• I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

  Author: Manuel Puig

• The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

  Author: Helen Prejean

• Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

  Author: Colin Powell

• A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

  Author: Dennis Potter

• Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

  Author: Alexander Pope

• Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

  Author: Alexander Pope

• What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

  Author: Andrei Platonov

• Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

  Author: Pablo Picasso

• Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

  Author: Francis Picabia

• I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.

  Author: Matthew Perry

• Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act.

  Author: Piper Perabo

• If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!

  Author: Arno Penzias

• My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.

  Author: Sean Penn

• We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together.

  Author: Robin Penn

• Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.

  Author: Simon Pegg

• But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.

  Author: George Pataki

• The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

  Author: Blaise Pascal

• The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.

  Author: Franz Papen

• I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

  Author: Gwyneth Paltrow

• There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

  Author: Thomas Paine

• I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.

  Author: Bill Owens

• Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.

  Author: Butch Otter

• We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

  Author: Laurence Olivier

• Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

  Author: Ben Okri

• By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.

  Author: Kenzaburo Oe

• It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

  Author: Phil Ochs

• We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

  Author: Barack Obama

• We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

  Author: Joshua Norton

• If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

  Author: Anais Nin

• And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

  Author: Juice Newton

• Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

  Author: John Newman

• 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.

  Author: Bebe Neuwirth

• The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

  Author: Randy Neugebauer

• Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.

  Author: Bob Nelson

• If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

  Author: Bill Nelson

• I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.

  Author: Janet Napolitano

• There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

  Author: Grace Napolitano

• It is not right for any country, for any president, for any prime minister to act as a prefect on the affairs of Zimbabwe.

  Author: Levy Mwanawsa

• I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.

  Author: Rupert Murdoch

• A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.

  Author: Paul Muni

• I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

  Author: Paul Muni

• But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

  Author: Samantha Mumba

• Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

  Author: Daniel Moynihan

• It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

  Author: Robert Motherwell

• While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.

  Author: Johann Most

• Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

  Author: Christopher Morley

• I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

  Author: Robin Morgan

• I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.

  Author: Mandy Moore

• The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

  Author: John Moody

• Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?

  Author: Colin Mochrie

• With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

  Author: Kate Millett

• One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

  Author: Henry Miller

• In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

  Author: Henry Miller

• I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

  Author: Arthur Miller

• We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

  Author: John Mill

• A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

  Author: George Meredith

• But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together.

  Author: Freddie Mercury

• The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

  Author: H. Mencken

• Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

  Author: Peter McWilliams

• I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'

  Author: Ian Mckellen

• Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

  Author: Aaron McGruder

• I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

  Author: Roddy McDowall

• We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.

  Author: Mitch McConnell

• Think globally, act locally.

  Author: Paul McCartney

• I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.

  Author: Joyce Maynard

• This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.

  Author: Melissa Maur

• I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.

  Author: Robert Matsui

• When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since.

  Author: Marlee Matlin

• And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

  Author: Olivier Martinez

• You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

  Author: Harriet Martineau

• Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.

  Author: Wynton Marsalis

• Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

  Author: Sophie Marceau

• The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often.

  Author: Murray Mann

• It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

  Author: Horace Mann

• Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.

  Author: Peter Mandelson

• I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.

  Author: Nick Mancuso

• Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.

  Author: Jena Malone

• Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

  Author: Margaret Mahy

• The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

  Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

• Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

  Author: Rose Macaulay

• Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

  Author: Loretta Lynn

• You get to act for a living. You're fortunate. So act like it.

  Author: Jeremy London

• I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

  Author: Jeremy London

• I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

  Author: Kenneth Livingstone

• At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

  Author: Laura Linney

• As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play.

  Author: Daniel Libeskind

• I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.

  Author: Juliette Lewis

• One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

  Author: Vivien Leigh

• I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently.

  Author: Michael Ledeen

• When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.

  Author: Norman Lear

• I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.

  Author: Nicholas Lea

• I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

  Author: Wilfrid Laurier

• I think it's a lame excuse for a lot of these rappers to say they only call girls bitches or hos because they act like that. It doesn't make them right.

  Author: Queen Latifah

• Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

  Author: Ferdinand Lassalle

• Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity.

  Author: Edwin Land

• The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

  Author: Corliss Lamont

• I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

  Author: Jerzy Kosinski

• I know I can act and it doesn't matter where you come from.

  Author: Boris Kodjoe

• When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

  Author: Beyonce Knowles

• If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you.

  Author: Suge Knight

• There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.

  Author: Shirley Knight

• If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

  Author: Nikita Khrushchev

• If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.

  Author: Ayatollah Khomeini

• The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.

  Author: Amanullah Khan

• The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.

  Author: Aly Khan

• Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

  Author: Charles Kettering

• All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation.

  Author: Ramman Kenoun

• We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

  Author: Henry Kendall

• Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.

  Author: Sue Kelly

• If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

  Author: Ric Keller

• I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.

  Author: Ric Keller

• As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.

  Author: Howard Keel

• I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.

  Author: Buster Keaton

• No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

  Author: Anatoly Karpov

• Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.

  Author: Rick Kaplan

• Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

  Author: Tim Kaine

• Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

  Author: Raul Julia

• Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

  Author: Bobby Jindal

• I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.

  Author: Thomas Jane

• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

  Author: William James

• I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

  Author: William James

• Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?

  Author: Victoria Jackson

• The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research.

  Author: Steve Israel

• What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

  Author: Jay Inslee

• Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

  Author: Thomas Huxley

• A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

  Author: Douglas Hurd

• Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!

  Author: Vanessa Hudgens

• It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.

  Author: Bryce Howard

• Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

  Author: Douglas Horton

• The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

  Author: Horace

• I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

  Author: Anthony Hopkins

• I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

  Author: J. Hoover

• It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

  Author: Bell Hooks

• The Patriot Act addresses various subjects. Some sections are beneficial and enhance our national security.

  Author: Mike Honda

• It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

  Author: Philip Hoffman

• I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

  Author: Dustin Hoffman

• One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.

  Author: Ruben Hinojosa

• It turned out to be exactly that, but more challenging emotionally. I looked at it in a more physical way, having to act in a chair and move around. But it really was more emotionally challenging.

  Author: Gregory Hines

• You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.

  Author: Paris Hilton

• Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

  Author: Napoleon Hill

• Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

  Author: Dan Hicks

• How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?

  Author: Auberon Herbert

• When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

  Author: Katharine Hepburn

• She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

  Author: O. Henry

• I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do.

  Author: Chris Hemsworth

• It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

  Author: Lillian Hellman

• Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

  Author: Patricia Heaton

• Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could... over 15,000 kids chanting.

  Author: Bobby Hatfield

• In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency.

  Author: Doc Hastings

• On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

  Author: Albert Hart

• Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

  Author: W. Harriman

• I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.

  Author: Jurgen Habermas

• Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

  Author: Andy Grove

• Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements.

  Author: D. Griffith

• It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

  Author: John Grierson

• Act quickly, think slowly.

  Author: Germaine Greer

• The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

  Author: Harold Greene

• It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revues.

  Author: Adolph Green

• It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

  Author: Frederick Great

• We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.

  Author: Jennifer Granholm

• Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

  Author: Martha Graham

• Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

  Author: Baltasar Gracian

• We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.

  Author: Eydie Gorme

• I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

  Author: John Goodman

• Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

  Author: Edmond Goncourt

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