Top 100 Act I Quotes
#1. I always wanted to have a family - that was one of my big wishes. And in school, I'd taken drama, and I'd always wanted to act. I did go to drama school in New York, Los Angeles and London, and I did small parts here and there, but I never really had the time. Modeling was always paying more.
Jerry Hall
#2. I just want to act. I just want to do the work.
Alison Lohman
#4. In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#5. We didn't have sex."
"What?" Cale blinks at her.
"We just talked."
Talked. Like ... talking? "That isn't a euphemism for some complicated sex act I don't know about, is it?
Dominique Frost
#6. I never look at myself as a closet actor wanting to make music or a closet musician wanting to act - I'm very proud to do both and I don't put one above the other, I'm very grateful and excited by both opportunities - it's really a unique opportunity to do both.
Jared Leto
#7. I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
Victoria Beckham
#8. I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it.
Camren Bicondova
#9. 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.
Jim Dale
#10. I'm just trying to keep my head above water as I learn how to act. I feel like I have so much to learn, it's insane. The only thing I know is that I don't know or have a grasp on anything other than this one thing that's within me, whatever that is, so I'm just trying to trust that.
Emma Stone
#11. Every act I live while I am fully awake can not help but be both prayer and lovemaking.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
#12. Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." ... But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that.
Henry A. Kissinger
#13. When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.
Marian Seldes
#14. I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don't go from M to Z.
Bernie Mac
#15. I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.
Molly Ringwald
#16. I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I could prepare myself. For what? I didn't know, nor how, except by taking a look around at the little I would be leaving.
Graham Greene
#17. When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.
Ethel Waters
#18. I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
Abhishek Bachchan
#19. I don't think I'm a star. I just love to act. I'm not thinking I'm even close to where I want to be.
Justin Chon
#20. I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
Tom Stoppard
#21. I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.
Matthew Perry
#22. I don't raise my head. I can't. If he looks me in the eyes he'll be able to tell I'm breaking down. My soul is shattering into a million pieces and my heart no longer feels any love for this world I'm breathing in. How can it? This is a devils act. I'm living in hell.- Winter
Crystal Spears
#23. I DON'T LIKE MY VOICE. I DON'T LIKE THE WAY I LOOK. I DON'T LIKE THE WAY I MOVE. I DON'T LIKE THE WAY I ACT. I MEAN, PERIOD. SO, YOU KNOW, I DON'T LIKE MYSELF.
Elizabeth Taylor
#24. It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.
Veerappa Moily
#25. I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.
Channing Tatum
#26. I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married.
Russ Feingold
#27. When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.
Nicolas Cage
#28. In the blank where it said "Name of act," I had scrawled, "Actually, I'm not really sure
Rachel Renee Russell
#29. Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
Sally Hawkins
#30. I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.
Willem Dafoe
#31. When I act, I act on behalf of who or what I love. Even when I have to fight against something, it is because of what I value and love.
Sharon Weil
#32. Really, the impetus driving me is I've always sung, but I like to act, I like drama, I like text, which is why opera is something I've come late to, I'd say.
Lauren Worsham
#33. Because I'm so much in the spotlight, people lose sight of why I'm in the industry. In fact, I'm doing all this because I love to act. I love to perform, to sing.
Lindsay Lohan
#34. When I watch people like Cate Blanchett act, I don't know what is going on in her life, you just get lost in her performance and that's what I hope to do as well.
Kate Bosworth
#35. Someone could be paraphilic in both his erotic target and his favorite sex act. I mean, really, any pellismophilic nebulophile (someone whose most passionate moments involve masturbating in the foggy mist while listening to a person stutter) can see that.
Jesse Bering
#36. Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in men with a vulnerable side.
Martin Freeman
#37. 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.'
Keke Palmer
#38. I curl up inside and freeze when I have to act. I much prefer sitting on the sidelines and trying to get the best out of other people.
Mel Ferrer
#39. I don't think I was a good model. I think I was born to emote and act. I would walk down the ramp and smile and they used to say, 'Give us a blank look.' It was really difficult not to smile.
Anushka Sharma
#40. All my labors are marred by sin and imperfection. As I think of every act I have ever done for God, I can only cry out, 'Oh, God, forgive the iniquity of my holy things.'"5
Jerry Bridges
#41. I know we could accept the things we can't be for each other, and even turn it into the poetic tragedy of our lives. Or we could act. I want to act. I want this to happen. Kosi is a good
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#42. If I don't have to act, I'd rather not. I'd rather not act cold. I'd rather actually be cold. That's my weird way of acting. If the door is supposed to be locked, I'd rather have it locked. But of course, most of the time, we have to act, and that's okay, too.
Lea Thompson
#43. I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.
Lyndsy Fonseca
#44. I remember one thing that marred this time for me; the movie "Gone with the Wind." When it played in Mason [MI], I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug.
Malcolm X
#45. I've always supported the DREAM Act. I'm a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act.
Mario Diaz-Balart
#46. I love to act. I want to be doing this forever, and I love to learn from people who I think are better.
Jenna Dewan
#47. I do believe - that all the world's a star. Beyond that heav'nly light I shall fly far! Luke (ACT I, Scene 7)
Ian Doescher
#48. I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or immoral act I no longer felt sure, but of the dignity of its intransigence I was convinced.
Phillip Lopate
#49. No need to act, i let my fear show "He killed himself," i whispered.
Eve raised an eyebrow. "Fourteen times?"
"He had bad aim.
Maria V. Snyder
#50. You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.
Janet Fitch
#51. Climbing mountains is an act I happen to love, but it is only one form of adventure. There are thousands. In fact, there's one for every human with the passion to push personal boundaries.
Mark Jenkins
#52. I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
Irvine Welsh
#53. I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.
Ne-Yo
#54. I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.
Jason Fuchs
#55. If I couldn't act, I'd really love to try music.
Ryan Eggold
#56. I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
Samantha Isler
#57. I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
Gary Johnson
#58. My allegiance was always to the act. I wanted them to be happy. I wasn't owned by a magazine or a record label. And I was a very naughty boy to boot!
Mick Rock
#59. I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.
Christopher Meloni
#60. If I'm on my own, I'll speak to 'Monkey' to generate new stuff for the act. I mean, I don't do it for moral support, although I wouldn't say that's out of the question. In fact, I could do it, I might do it ... yes, I think I should actually start doing it more.
Nina Conti
#61. The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.
Tucker Max
#62. I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.
Amanda Peterson
#63. I was very dirty; I was a very dirty comic. There was no way I would have gotten on TV with the act I had when I first started.
Gabriel Iglesias
#64. I was a very extrovert kid. It felt normal to me to act. I always went to regular schools. I've never been catty or a prima donna, so I never had problems. I always had my seat at the cafeteria when I came back from acting.
Kirsten Dunst
#65. I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it.
John Mellencamp
#67. I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
Vanessa Lengies
#68. She waved through the dirty window from her seat as the train started up. I did not do the ape act. I stood there and did the human act as well as possible.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#69. I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.
Gary Sinise
#70. As president, I will take that common ground and sign the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. I will stop allowing taxpayer money to fund Planned Parenthood. And I will support those pregnancy centers and women's health clinics around the country that are actually serving their communities.
Carly Fiorina
#71. My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!
Jeffrey Tambor
#72. You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else's advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.
Dakota Fanning
#73. I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#74. Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.
Valerie Trierweiler
#75. We can't wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won't act, I will.
Barack Obama
#76. I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.
Warwick Davis
#77. When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.
Evangeline Lilly
#78. I don't want to weaken the Patriot Act. I want to repeal it.
Jon Tester
#79. I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.
Morgan Freeman
#80. My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.
Colin Quinn
#81. It's a . . . transcendental act. Making life. . . . 'By this act, I bring one death into the world.' One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between. . . . Our children change us . . . whether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#82. The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in the end the buck stops with the Prime Minister.
Helen Clark
#83. 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.
Bebe Neuwirth
#84. I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.
John Corbett
#85. I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
Kate Micucci
#86. I can act ... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.
Chris Colfer
#87. Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Cassilda: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.
Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
The King in Yellow, Act I, Scene 2.
Robert W. Chambers
#88. When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it all in. I didn't know you were supposed to just stand up and tell jokes. Essentially, that's what my act became: those five elements - except I dropped the poetry.
Steve Martin
#89. On scores of sites, users can upload illegal files of my books. As per 1998's toothless Digital Millennium Copyright Act, I bear the burden of discovering and reporting each theft.
Peter Lerangis
#90. I learned there that the key was first to prioritize all the individual stressors and then act. I break it all down into the little things I can manage. The stressors that I can't affect, I don't worry about. The ones I can affect, I simply deal with one at a time.
Mark Owen
#91. They don't like being seen through: as for me I'm straight I don't join their act I tear masks off.
Simone De Beauvoir
#92. I love to act, I love to sing and I love to entertain, so if I am passionate about a certain project and I want to do it, I hope to stretch my acting skills.
Julianne Hough
#93. There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true.
Stephen King
#94. I'm born to do music. I'm born to act. I'm born to dance and all of these things, and I will be respected.
Lil' Mama
#95. I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.
Nicholas Lea
#96. I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I'm from.
Cam Gigandet
#97. I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.
Steve Harvey
#98. I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any conflict with any directors because I know they're the boss.
Danny Trejo
#99. 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.
Lainie Kazan
#100. That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37.
John Mahoney
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