Norma: How can you act when there's nothing inside to come out?
Maria: There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: One of the disadvantages of being a Patrician is that occasionally you are obliged to act like one.
The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.
Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.
I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training.
I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.
The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.
We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.
I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.
I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.
The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'
I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.
