Quotes of: Act Keyword

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?

Victoria Jackson

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

Vic Mignogna

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.

Willie Aames

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

William S. Burroughs

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Winston Churchill

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Will Durant

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

William James

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

Walter Kirn

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.

William Shatner

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

Zoe Kazan

I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public.

Anne Grant

I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting. The British orientation is textual; they start from the language and work toward the character.

Arthur Penn

I suppose I could be accused of taking acting too seriously and losing the fun of it. I do take my work very seriously; I take on the responsibility of it.

David Suchet

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'

Evan Sayet

Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

Michael Pitt

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Norman Mailer

When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you're hoping the person you're acting opposite of is going to be on your kind of crazy wavelength.

Raza Jaffrey

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

Robin Wright

We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.

Ted Danson

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

Alice Walker

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

Brit Marling