There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.
I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.
Tonight I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.
I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.
Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
How girls perceive themselves is interesting, and how they act when they're looking in the mirror.
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
I always like to start with a great pair of shoes. It's your first contact with the ground, and it can really change the way you move and act physically.
I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
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.
I don't know why, but people tend to look at stand-ups and think they can act, which actually isn't the case. But never mind. I thought: if that's the area where they're looking, then that's the area where I'll put myself - even as a means to an end. And it was.
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.
I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.
The Safe Drinking Water Act was passed in 1974 after tests discovered carcinogens, lead and dangerous bacteria flowing from faucets in New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Boston and elsewhere.
I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.
I've got a tough act to follow.
When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.
I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.
There is a time in the life of every predicament where it is ripe for resolution. Emotions provide the cue to act when a problem is big enough to see, yet still small enough to solve. By understanding your emotions, you can move adeptly through your current challenges and prevent future ones.
Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.
Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
I love London - its where I'm born and bred - but New York just has such an energy when you're walking around, and if you act or you write and you act like I do, its just such a good town for you because people here like people who can do more than one thing.
It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.
For our part, the U.S. must act quickly to ensure Most Favored Nation status to China.
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
