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Act Quotes


"...They hand me a script. I act. I'm here for entertainment, basically,..."

Full 'Brad Pitt' Quote   Source: Brad Pitt
"condom, and put it over your head. If you act like a dick, you might as..."

Full 'Rosie O'donnell' Quote   Source: Rosie O'donnell
"deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is as bad..."

Full 'Mohammed' Quote   Source: Mohammed
"A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our..."

Full 'George Meredith' Quote   Source: George Meredith
"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be"

Full 'Immanuel Kant' Quote   Source: Immanuel Kant
"Act in your pauses."

Full 'Ellen Terry' Quote   Source: Ellen Terry
"Act like you expect to get into the end zone."

Full 'Joe Paterno' Quote   Source: Joe Paterno
"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all"

Full 'Michael Korda' Quote   Source: Michael Korda
"Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning,..."

Full 'Cameron Diaz' Quote   Source: Cameron Diaz
"Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from"

Full 'Marguerite Duras' Quote   Source: Marguerite Duras
"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the"

Full 'Laurence Olivier' Quote   Source: Laurence Olivier
"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding"

Full 'Paul Newman' Quote   Source: Paul Newman
"Acting is about being honest. Ultimately, the audience doesn't love you or..."

Full 'Kate Winslett' Quote   Source: Kate Winslett
"Acting is being susceptible to what is around you and it's letting it all..."

Full 'Meryl Streep' Quote   Source: Meryl Streep
"Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter"

Full 'Laurence Olivier' Quote   Source: Laurence Olivier
"Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life."

Full 'Denzel Washington' Quote   Source: Denzel Washington
"Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole..."

Full 'Glenda Jackson' Quote   Source: Glenda Jackson
"Acting is not about the glory or the glamour - whatever that is, it's about..."

Full 'Sally Field' Quote   Source: Sally Field
"Acting is the ultimate luxury. This is one of the luckiest things you could..."

Full 'Emma Thompson' Quote   Source: Emma Thompson
"Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one."

Full 'Paul Newman' Quote   Source: Paul Newman
"Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as..."

Full 'Glenda Jackson' Quote   Source: Glenda Jackson
"Alimony - The act of giving comfort to the enemy."

Full 'Abigail Van Buren' Quote   Source: Abigail Van Buren
"the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."

Full 'Henry Miller' Quote   Source: Henry Miller
"no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what..."

Full 'W. H. Auden' Quote   Source: W. H. Auden
"to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek..."

Full 'John Updike' Quote   Source: John Updike
"save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take...."

Full 'Kathy Ireland' Quote   Source: Kathy Ireland
"cast as the Virgin Mary was my first acting buzz, if you like. I was only 5..."

Full 'Kate Winslett' Quote   Source: Kate Winslett
"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

Full 'Charles Kettering' Quote   Source: Charles Kettering
"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in..."

Full 'Princess Diana' Quote   Source: Princess Diana
"Comedy is acting out optimism."

Full 'Robin Williams' Quote   Source: Robin Williams
"to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion... I've..."

Full 'Diane Sawyer' Quote   Source: Diane Sawyer
"Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will...."

Full 'Tony Blair' Quote   Source: Tony Blair
"Criticize the act, not the person."

Full 'Mary Kay Ash' Quote   Source: Mary Kay Ash
"actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary...."

Full 'Blaise Pascal' Quote   Source: Blaise Pascal
"and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal..."

Full 'Pablo Casals' Quote   Source: Pablo Casals
"power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the..."

Full 'Brigham Young' Quote   Source: Brigham Young
"Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like"

Full 'Erich Fromm' Quote   Source: Erich Fromm
"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction."

Full 'Pablo Picasso' Quote   Source: Pablo Picasso
"Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven."

Full 'Henry Ward Beecher' Quote   Source: Henry Ward Beecher
"Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that..."

Full 'Mohammed' Quote   Source: Mohammed
"events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of..."

Full 'Robert Kennedy' Quote   Source: Robert Kennedy
"foremost I am a father-- who just happens to act."

Full 'Andy Garcia' Quote   Source: Andy Garcia
"(for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and..."

Full 'Isabelle Eberhardt' Quote   Source: Isabelle Eberhardt
"the unhampered translation of will into act?"

Full 'Dante' Quote   Source: Dante
"Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people."

Full 'Christina Baldwin' Quote   Source: Christina Baldwin
"Gardening is not a rational act."

Full 'Margaret Atwood' Quote   Source: Margaret Atwood
"Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error."

Full 'Benjamin Disraeli' Quote   Source: Benjamin Disraeli
"He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence."

Full 'William Blake' Quote   Source: William Blake
"I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks."

Full 'Janet Flanner' Quote   Source: Janet Flanner
"I adore the buzz with acting. There is a sense of instant gratification..."

Full 'Jerry Hall' Quote   Source: Jerry Hall
"future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present..."

Full 'Abraham Maslow' Quote   Source: Abraham Maslow
"clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more..."

Full 'Richard Nixon' Quote   Source: Richard Nixon
"I don't get acting jobs because of my looks."

Full 'Alec Baldwin' Quote   Source: Alec Baldwin
"artist who opened a lot of doors for black acts. Michael Jackson is still..."

Full 'Missy Elliot' Quote   Source: Missy Elliot
"if I'm a different person. I used to act dumb. That act is no longer cute...."

Full 'Paris Hilton' Quote   Source: Paris Hilton
"wanted to do something that wasn't 9 - 5. Acting was the first thing I..."

Full 'Michael J Fox' Quote   Source: Michael J Fox
"I know very little about acting. I?m just an incredibly gifted faker."

Full 'Robert Downey Jr' Quote   Source: Robert Downey Jr
"I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it...."

Full 'Nicole Kidman' Quote   Source: Nicole Kidman
"I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo."

Full 'Nicole Kidman' Quote   Source: Nicole Kidman
"I loved acting. I was a ham. I was good at goofing off. I didn't know if I..."

Full 'Sandra Bullock' Quote   Source: Sandra Bullock
"I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead"

Full 'Nancy Reagan' Quote   Source: Nancy Reagan
"I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force..."

Full 'Steve Mcqueen' Quote   Source: Steve Mcqueen
"say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital..."

Full 'J Edgar Hoover' Quote   Source: J Edgar Hoover
"feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act...."

Full 'Laurence Olivier' Quote   Source: Laurence Olivier
"I studied acting, I studied dancing, I studied singing, I was prepared. And..."

Full 'Goldie Hawn' Quote   Source: Goldie Hawn
"I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine."

Full 'Nancy Reagan' Quote   Source: Nancy Reagan
"of which I did as soon as I left the [Acting] Company and was starving...."

Full 'Kevin Kline' Quote   Source: Kevin Kline
"significant percentage of men commit acts of violence against women they're..."

Full 'Alec Baldwin' Quote   Source: Alec Baldwin
"nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a..."

Full 'Julia Roberts' Quote   Source: Julia Roberts
"if I did do acting, I would try to tackle it from an artistic standpoint..."

Full 'Robin Thicke' Quote   Source: Robin Thicke
"say they are feminists. Either they are acting out of guilt, trying to..."

Full 'David Thomas' Quote   Source: David Thomas
"we would define it essentially as an act of courage..."

Full 'Cynthia Ozick' Quote   Source: Cynthia Ozick
"audience a chance they will do half your acting for you."

Full 'Katharine Hepburn' Quote   Source: Katharine Hepburn
"If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf."

Full 'Nikita Khrushchev' Quote   Source: Nikita Khrushchev
"If you think before you act, the other fellow gets in his joke first."

Full 'Edgar Watson Howe' Quote   Source: Edgar Watson Howe
"history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one...."

Full 'Albert Camus' Quote   Source: Albert Camus
"I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit"

Full 'Betty Grable' Quote   Source: Betty Grable
"opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part...."

Full 'Washington Irving' Quote   Source: Washington Irving
"existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection...."

Full 'Charles Darwin' Quote   Source: Charles Darwin
"that is always how he has more or less acted it...."

Full 'Havelock Ellis' Quote   Source: Havelock Ellis
"36 percent of all worldwide terrorist acts were directed against..."

Full 'John Ashcroft' Quote   Source: John Ashcroft
"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history..."

Full 'Robert Kennedy' Quote   Source: Robert Kennedy
"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."

Full 'Anatole France' Quote   Source: Anatole France
"day schedules to learn and maintain the act of steadfast attention to God;..."

Full 'Evelyn Underhill' Quote   Source: Evelyn Underhill
"get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We act to live, then we have to die. What..."

Full 'Gilda Radner' Quote   Source: Gilda Radner
"how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it..."

Full 'Samuel Johnson' Quote   Source: Samuel Johnson
"wide scale to ensure that world leaders act...."

Full 'Mikhail Gorbachev' Quote   Source: Mikhail Gorbachev
"I've got a talent to act. No matter what any newspaper says about me, I am..."

Full 'Jean Claude Van Damme' Quote   Source: Jean Claude Van Damme
"I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I..."

Full 'Joseph Kennedy' Quote   Source: Joseph Kennedy
"you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with...."

Full 'Andy Rooney' Quote   Source: Andy Rooney
"good play with a badly written third act."

Full 'Truman Capote' Quote   Source: Truman Capote
"Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be..."

Full 'Robin Thicke' Quote   Source: Robin Thicke
"a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."

Full 'Viktor Frankl' Quote   Source: Viktor Frankl
"Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions."

Full 'Benjamin Disraeli' Quote   Source: Benjamin Disraeli
"strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the..."

Full 'Ralph Waldo Emerson' Quote   Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when..."

Full 'Grover Cleveland' Quote   Source: Grover Cleveland
"Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we..."

Full 'Jerry Rubin' Quote   Source: Jerry Rubin
"Most people don't act stupid: it's the real thing!"

Full 'Alfred E Newman' Quote   Source: Alfred E Newman
"Most people put acting behind them when they reach puberty, and very often..."

Full 'Laurence Olivier' Quote   Source: Laurence Olivier
"No act of kindness is wasted."

Full 'William Purkey' Quote   Source: William Purkey
"That would be boring. It wouldn't be acting...."

Full 'Anna Paquin' Quote   Source: Anna Paquin
"One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is..."

Full 'John Henry Newman' Quote   Source: John Henry Newman
"Our acts of liberty are our strongest propaganda"

Full 'Paul Goodman' Quote   Source: Paul Goodman
"along comes someone with a one- or two-act opera without all that pompous..."

Full 'Giuseppe Verdi' Quote   Source: Giuseppe Verdi
"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have."

Full 'Anne Tyler' Quote   Source: Anne Tyler
"People figured I couldn't act [just] because I modeled. 'Good!' I thought...."

Full 'Rene Russo' Quote   Source: Rene Russo
"right now. I'm definitely not opposed to acting or modeling or something. I..."

Full 'Antonella Barba' Quote   Source: Antonella Barba
"to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin,..."

Full 'Henry David Thoreau' Quote   Source: Henry David Thoreau
"as a whole it does not follow that its acts are always favorable to all..."

Full 'Hirobumi Ito' Quote   Source: Hirobumi Ito
"Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some..."

Full 'Laurence Olivier' Quote   Source: Laurence Olivier
"touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot..."

Full 'George W Bush' Quote   Source: George W Bush
"The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having..."

Full 'Richard Quarles' Quote   Source: Richard Quarles
"The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only..."

Full 'Hosea Ballou' Quote   Source: Hosea Ballou
"The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is..."

Full 'Phylicia Rashad' Quote   Source: Phylicia Rashad
"The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the"

Full 'Gail Godwin' Quote   Source: Gail Godwin
"The art of acting is to be other than what you are."

Full 'Whoopi Goldberg' Quote   Source: Whoopi Goldberg
"the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The..."

Full 'Carl Gustav Jung' Quote   Source: Carl Gustav Jung
"back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines."

Full 'Charles Kuralt' Quote   Source: Charles Kuralt
"The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to..."

Full 'Glenda Jackson' Quote   Source: Glenda Jackson
"more criminals than any other single act of government."

Full 'Barry Goldwater' Quote   Source: Barry Goldwater
"The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time"

Full 'Garrett Hardin' Quote   Source: Garrett Hardin
"role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel,..."

Full 'Jim Morrison' Quote   Source: Jim Morrison
"self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the..."

Full 'Thornton Wilder' Quote   Source: Thornton Wilder
"of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of..."

Full 'Thornton Wilder' Quote   Source: Thornton Wilder
"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."

Full 'Keanu Reeves' Quote   Source: Keanu Reeves
"garden. I'm thankful for the money, but the acting itself ... it's a damn..."

Full 'Rene Russo' Quote   Source: Rene Russo
"produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that..."

Full 'Thomas Paine' Quote   Source: Thomas Paine
"them. And we do. We get into a ring and act out other people's hates...."

Full 'Floyd Patterson' Quote   Source: Floyd Patterson
"like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were..."

Full 'J D Salinger' Quote   Source: J D Salinger
"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into..."

Full 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe' Quote   Source: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only"

Full 'Anatole France' Quote   Source: Anatole France
"To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than..."

Full 'Sarah Ellis' Quote   Source: Sarah Ellis
"break training without permission is an act of treason."

Full 'John Heisman' Quote   Source: John Heisman
"years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day...."

Full 'Winston Churchill' Quote   Source: Winston Churchill
"character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to..."

Full 'Katharine Hepburn' Quote   Source: Katharine Hepburn
"To me, acting is the most logical way for people?s neuroses to manifest..."

Full 'James Dean' Quote   Source: James Dean
"conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think."

Full 'Hannah Arendt' Quote   Source: Hannah Arendt
"television only affects children whose parents act like television"

Full 'David Byrne' Quote   Source: David Byrne
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life,..."

Full 'Charles Kingsley' Quote   Source: Charles Kingsley
"We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act."

Full 'Laurence Olivier' Quote   Source: Laurence Olivier
"about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom..."

Full 'Warren E. Burger' Quote   Source: Warren E. Burger
"twinkies. You've seen them on television acting the news, modeling and..."

Full 'Linda Ellerbee' Quote   Source: Linda Ellerbee
"change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain..."

Full 'Charles Swindoll' Quote   Source: Charles Swindoll
"We must act out passion before we can feel it"

Full 'Jean Paul Sartre' Quote   Source: Jean Paul Sartre
"men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs...."

Full 'Henry Miller' Quote   Source: Henry Miller
"What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?"

Full 'Laurence Olivier' Quote   Source: Laurence Olivier
"headset, so these are things that you would actually use if you were a..."

Full 'Paris Bennett' Quote   Source: Paris Bennett
"exactly the way a director orders, it isn?t acting. It?s following..."

Full 'James Dean' Quote   Source: James Dean
"When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who..."

Full 'Max Lerner' Quote   Source: Max Lerner
"When I act, I'm free..."

Full 'Keanu Reeves' Quote   Source: Keanu Reeves
"between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot..."

Full 'Cynthia Heimel' Quote   Source: Cynthia Heimel
"the U.S. military, you are approving of acts morally equivalent to to the..."

Full 'Timothy Mcveigh' Quote   Source: Timothy Mcveigh
"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes"

Full 'Bette Davis' Quote   Source: Bette Davis
"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."

Full 'E. B. White' Quote   Source: E. B. White
"you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and..."

Full 'William Blake' Quote   Source: William Blake
"cheapened or enhanced by your subsequent act."

Full 'Tunde Alan-Taiwo' Quote   Source: Tunde Alan-Taiwo
"Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make"

Full 'Francis Picabia' Quote   Source: Francis Picabia