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I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

Ntozake Shange

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

Noah Taylor

I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

Olga Kurylenko

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

Sophocles

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

Sam Shepard

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

Theodore Bikel

Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.

Tommy Mottola

I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.

Kate Jackson

I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.

Krysten Ritter

It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.

Laura Dern

Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.

Liam Neeson

I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.

Malin Akerman

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

Michael Badnarik

I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.

Manish Dayal

Acting and the navy seem to balance each other out - I've not surrendered over to the complete process of the navy, nor have I surrendered to the ego-driven process of acting.

Mark Hadlow

The Patriot Act addresses various subjects. Some sections are beneficial and enhance our national security.

Mike Honda

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

Ronald Reagan

The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.

Sandra Bullock

So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.

Maria Menounos

Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

Steven Rattner

An individual's refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

Noam Chomsky