I've always loved to write. I've been writing a lot longer than I've been acting, and I hope to continue to do that and maybe do it a little bit more in terms of, like, writing movies that I could potentially act in.
When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.
I love my Kindle, but there are many books that I need to physically own. I think having the choice makes all the difference. Instant gratification - buying a book digitally and owning it sixty seconds later - really is a revolutionary act.
I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.
The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.
We have to tell the stories of the everyday Americans who are adversely impacted by these policies. That's how we were able to keep the Affordable Care Act from being repealed. People told their stories; people showed up at Town Hall.
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.
So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.
Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.
A number of major companies - from PepsiCo to Walmart to U.P.S. - have recognized that corporations have a responsibility to address the causes of climate change before it is too late. We do not have to wait for an international treaty or new regulations to act.
I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.
We've suffered a 'Ponzification' of the economy in recent years, as bubbles have built up and then burst, and each time we act as though it's the first time.
You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.
I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Working on a startup is a balancing act: being crazy enough to believe your idea can take off but not crazy enough to miss the signs when it's clearly not going to.
Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.
Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos.
I don't have an act. I just talk. I'm just Lenny Bruce.
I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
In order that punishment should not be an act of violence perpetrated by one or many upon a private citizen, it is essential that it should be public, speedy, necessary, the minimum possible in the given circumstances, proportionate to the crime, and determined by the law.
I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, 'What could I do? I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't act or anything like that. OK, I can write.'
People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
