Quotes of: Act Keyword

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

V. S. Naipaul

Tradition in the nursery has acted as a severe editor.

Walter Jerrold

These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.

Willard Scott

If someone criticizes my acting, they may be right.

William Shatner

The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.

Henry Cavill

As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

Ian McShane

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

Miranda Otto

I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.

Meryl Streep

I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

Paul Feig

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

Parker Stevenson

I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts.

Robert Redford

The literature of childhood abounds with evidence that the peaks of a child's experience are not visits to the cinema, or even family outings to the sea, but occasions when he escapes into places that are disused and overgrown and silent. To a child ...

Children's Games in Street and Playground: Chasing, Catching, Seeking, Hunting, Racing, Dueling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, and Pretending

The Pelagianizing Romanist says, Lust, or concupiscence, brings forth sin, therefore it cannot be sin, because the mother cannot be the child. We reply, Concupiscence brings forth sin, therefore it must be sin, because child and mother must have the ...

Conservative Reformation & Its Theology

Without fail, he always signed off on these letters with love and he always included Whiskey and Bess in the list of individuals sending this love my way. At the time it made me laugh, it made me embarrassed, but as soon as I softened, as soon as I m...

Ever By My Side: A Memoir in Eight [Acts] Pets

Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to ...

First Day

They had also brought in a piece of human scrap so monstrous that everyone recoiled at the sight, that it shocked men who were no longer shockable. I shut my eyes; I had already seen far too much and I wanted to be able to forget eventually. This thi...

Fear: A Novel of World War I

A culture capable of imagining complexly is a humble culture. It acts, when it has to act, as late in the game as possibl, and as cautiously, because it knows its girth and the tight confines of the china shop it's blundering into. And it knows that ...

The Braindead Megaphone

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it app...

The Book of Lost Things

He nodded at the sketchpad, still held in Dummy's claw, and it hurt, he didn't even want to think about how much that hurt, like a hole through his chest, another one, because yeah. "I was just going to smooth the pages out, I promise. Not going to, ...

The Act of Creation Will Be Your Salvation

...the point, the essential quality of the act of reading, now and always, is that it tends to no foreseeable end, to no conclusion. Every reading prolongs another, begun in some afternoon thousands of years ago and of which we know nothing; every re...

Into the Looking-Glass Wood: Essays on Books, Reading, and the World

From the time he was young, he dressed the way you told him to dress; he acted the way you told him to act; he said the things you told him to say. He's been listening to somebody else tell him what to do... He hasn't changed. He is still listening t...

Kids Are Worth It!: Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline