I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
I tell people, 'I'm American. I act.'
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
I act with my gut instincts.
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.
His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.
Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.
I was getting in my own way. I would quit jobs and step out on hope and faith, and pray to God that I would book something that would allow me to just continue to act.
Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.
It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time.
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Most men, I think, wonder about their courage. How would they act in combat? Under torture?
By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.
A siege is an act of war.
If you care enough to look right, you care enough to act right. And vice versa.
The secret to acting is don't act. Be you, with add-ons.
For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
I had wanted to act since I was a kid, but I had a lot of shame attached to it. I didn't tell anyone because I didn't think it was ever a possibility.
I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don't act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth.
I've always wanted to model and act. My first break came to me when I was at a parlour to get a haircut. The salon owner asked me if I would model for them.
My mother was an introvert and quite religious. And we were brought up in the church. And when she learned that I wanted to act, she simply said: 'You cannot live here and do that.'
I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.
The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.
When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since.
I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression.
Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.
I do see women voters shifting to the Republican Party and doing so significantly. And the issue that's doing this is the fear the federal government will prevail in making the Affordable Health Care Act permanent law and how that will hurt small businesses.
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?
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.
No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.
In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most magical and romantic career anyone could have... But I never did write a play.
