I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.
I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
I can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What am I doing as an actor? I can't act!'
I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.
I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.
I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.
If I lose touch with that... the reason why I act... then I'll leave it all. I don't do it for fame or money.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.
The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.
I never felt that I was typecast, but I was concerned about it. I certainly made an effort to take as many parts in theater and film that resisted that. If you only learn how to act a certain kind of role, it is very difficult to grow as an actor.
My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.
The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.
I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock.
I didn't know I was gonna act. I thought I was gonna be a singer because that's what I did first, and I was like, 'When I grow up, I want to be, you know, a singer.'
I always wanted to act. I am very passionate about the art. So when I got the opportunity, I was more than happy.
The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.
I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.
In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.
