Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.
Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.
If we all do one random act of kindness daily, we just might set the world in the right direction.
The fame stuff, the kind words from websites and things, are very flattering and lovely, but I just wanna act.
The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.
I wanted to write in film or something like that. I thought acting was an embarrassing thing to say you wanted to do, especially when you're young. It seemed really uncool.
I am born here among the monsters; if I have to survive I must act like one of them.
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.
No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.
Such a simple thing, kindness. Such a simple thing. A nice word of encouragement, given when needed. An act of friendship. A passing smile.
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.
I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.
But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.
As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.
I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.
