If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change.
Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.
Who knows if tonight our journey ends? Who knows if this be last lap? Who knows? Dwell on thoughts * Act! Pray!
I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'
I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.
I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.
But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.
As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.
I'm always a people watcher. They always had us do that at the University of Connecticut where I went for my training. I got my B.F.A. in Acting there.
So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.
Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
I think I may have created a monster with my - I won't say act - but with my redneck pose.
We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered - the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation.
I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.
The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing.
