Quotes of: Act Keyword

I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.

Norman Finkelstein

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

David Hockney

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

Tommy Chong

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

Thomas Mann

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

Cate Blanchett

Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.

Patricia Schroeder

Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment.

Tina Yothers

People that hurt others, only act on a pain they feel themselves.

Vivian Amis

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.

Vivien Leigh

Act simple in a world of complexity, then people will understand and follow you

willem brethouwer

In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.

Will Chase

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

William Hurt

I feel that the year ahead for me will be full of two of my favorite things: dance and acting.

William Kempe

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.

William Lucking

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

Winona Ryder

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

William Shatner

Our nature gives us purpose, to reflect and act upon, responsibly by choice.

Xavier Rosseel

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

Yakov Smirnoff

Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

Zhang Ziyi

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

Aaron Tveit