Act Like A Child Quotes

#1. Just because you are a child of God, that doesn't mean you can act like a child."
~Renaud

Robert J.A. Gilbert

#2. Being [in] a show that you get to say good-bye instead of being asked to leave is a real honor.

John Krasinski

#3. Trying to motivate yourself with fear is like screaming
at a child, "Do something, dammit!" You'll either
freeze up or act in counterproducti ve ways. Fear
widens the knowing-doing gap. Don't use it.

Martha Beck

#4. I filled in for Papa Roach because we weren't doing much. Unwritten Law had a few more shows booked, but I got the call to fill in again at the end of the year. I was like, "I have to make myself available to these guys."

Tony Palermo

#5. When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a frightful monster, it shrinks back and buries its face in its mother's bosom, that it may no longer behold it.

Francois Fenelon

#6. Faith and power, he had come to believe, were interchangeable. Was the final truth even simpler? That no act of faith was possible until you were rudely pushed out into the screaming middle of things like a newborn child skydiving chutelessly out of his mother's womb?

Stephen King

#7. I've always loved acting, even from when I was a child. But when I got on stage, I realised I couldn't act my way out of a paper bag. I was wild and full of unharnessed energy, but I was around all these seasoned performers like Rita Cullis. It was as if they were all in slow motion.

Claron McFadden

#8. Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

John Y. Campbell

#9. A man should be like a child with his wives, but if they need him, he
should act like a man

Umar

#10. Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

Colin Firth

#11. I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.

Karen White

#12. Want to help stop the bullying epidemic? Don't act like a bully. Don't hit, threaten, ignore, isolate, intimidate, ridicule, or manipulate your child. Children really do learn what they live ...

L.R. Knost

#13. My name is Llian. I've come to save you."
Said to Karan just before Llian falls flat on his face in front of her.

Ian Irvine

#14. All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

John Grant

#15. Having to act like an adult because I was directing a big movie but also feeling like a child because we had reindeer and big cameras and they had fake snow. I just wanted to go play in the snow.

Todd Strauss-Schulson

#16. Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!

Bryant McGill

#17. A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

Honore De Balzac

#18. How do you learn to write? You sit your ass down in a chair, in front of a laptop, for ten years. Period.

Sean Beaudoin

#19. Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

Haruki Murakami

#20. We all have our demons, but if we can get our demons to play nice with someone else's, well, that makes life worth living.

Teresa Mummert

#21. Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

Noorilhuda

#22. The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business.

Jordan Bridges

#23. If I was going to be treated like a child, then I was going to act like one.

Rachel Higginson

#24. A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#25. Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one?

Emma Watson

#26. I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'

Alexander Skarsgard

#27. You know how to tell when you're getting old? When your broad mind changes places with your narrow waist.

Red Skelton

#28. I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.

Kris Kristofferson

#29. I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#30. Unconditional love and forgiveness are the sources of eternal happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#31. I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Rihanna