Top 100 I Act Quotes
#1. I'll be damned if I act like a mouse, you overgrown tomcat.
J.C. Daniels
#3. Let's make a deal. You can control me in the bedroom, Zeth, but out of the bedroom, we're partners. I act under advisement, and so do you. Fair?
Callie Hart
#4. People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and also conduct interviews on my show. I have grown as a person and an artiste.
Kapil Sharma
#5. I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.
Danila Kozlovsky
#6. The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.
Liev Schreiber
#7. Sometimes, I act indifferently to get your attention, You take all my worries and pain away, and fill my days with joy. I feel good taking suggestions from you not because I can't make decisions alone but because, you complete me.
Anuj Tiwari
#8. When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.
Frank McCourt
#9. I would be so curious to wire my brain up and see what's occurring when I act, because a performance is such a heightened state. I've always found that with doing theatre especially. It's so hard to come down.
Luke Kirby
#10. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.
Stephen Fry
#11. I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.
Marian Seldes
#12. Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant, I act under orders.
Herman Melville
#13. I act most like myself ... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.
Junot Diaz
#14. 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
#15. I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does.
Tom Rath
#16. I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.
Bode Miller
#17. I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.
Rosie O'Donnell
#18. Listen to me, he thought. If I were talking out loud, I'd be whining. Derek gets hit and I act like I'm the one getting messed up. It
Gary Paulsen
#19. 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
#20. There have been times when I truly feel like I'm retarded and that everybody thinks I'm retarded, and because they think I'm retarded, I get nervous and I act like a retard, which simply fulfills their expectations. It's a big circle. The retarded circle of my life.
Geoff Herbach
#21. I act and react, and suddenly I wonder, 'Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think of me now?
Sylvia Plath
#23. When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.
Evangeline Lilly
#24. I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.
E. G. Marshall
#25. I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up.
Kelly Reilly
#26. For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?
Ann Bancroft
#27. I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.
Tia Carrere
#28. I think before I act
and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.
John Christopher
#29. I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.
Ward Cunningham
#30. I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.
David Arquette
#32. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am - I really do - but people never notice it. People never notice anything.
J.D. Salinger
#33. I act like I don't care, but I do. I always have. And my God, what wouldn't I give to put the pieces together?
David Arnold
#34. I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my judgment, and according to my conscience. If she approves, well and good. If she does not, or wishes any one to take my place, I am ready to vacate. We are even.
John C. Calhoun
#35. I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.
Diana Ross
#36. I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
Agatha Christie
#37. You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else ... I sound like him, but I act like myself.
Damon Wayans Jr.
#40. I hang around kids so people will assume when I act like one it's because I'm babysitting.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#41. My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.
John Prescott
#42. I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.
Ben Affleck
#43. I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen
J.D. Salinger
#44. I am responsible for what I believe and, I might add, for what I refuse to believe, because the content of what I do or do not believe makes a tremendous difference to what I become and how I act.
J.P. Moreland
#45. Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.
Claudia Gray
#46. I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.
Sean Combs
#48. My job during the EVAs, the spacewalks, is to act as the inside coordinator. I remain on the aft flight deck of the shuttle, and I act in a manner to help the gentlemen outside, my fellow crewmates, who are performing the EVA tasks.
Alan G. Poindexter
#49. It's not acting like an ass that bothers me, it's that I act like an ass while being completely convinced that I'm suave and sexy that freaks me out.
Tim Hall
#50. If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.
Donna Brazile
#51. All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.
Charles Spurgeon
#52. I act here and there but you have to commit so far out in advance when you're directing that you - I'm kind of booked six months out, so it's hard.
Joanna Kerns
#53. You know that's not what I mean! I just ... I don't know what to do with men. I get nervous. I make too many jokes. I act like a kid sister instead of their fantasy sex machine.
Victoria Dahl
#54. I become professional or hip, depending on what I am wearing. I feel different when I am wearing different clothes. I act different. I let my Talbots suits and my vintage shirts remake me in their image. I want to let Jesus do the same.
Lauren F. Winner
#55. I don't understand why I do what I do. I don't understand why I act anymore. But I do know that I love it, and that I find it really interesting and satisfying to enter into other worlds and explore different ways of thinking.
Toni Collette
#56. And I come to realise that all my small todays, the way I act, will lead into my tomorrows.
Luke Davies
#57. How does he do that? No matter how stupid I act or feel, all he has to do is smile that perfect smile and it erases everything.
Jennifer Murgia
#58. When it comes to killing my sin, I don't wait for the miracle, I act the miracle.
John Piper
#59. I act freely when I am tuned in, centred and loving, but if possible, I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#60. That's how I make work. Along the way, I take notes, I read about history and popular culture. Sometimes I act out things in the studio. I go back to my mother's hair salon so I can hear three voices going all at once. I pull inspiration from everything.
Mark Bradford
#61. I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way ...
Milton H. Erickson
#62. I think my thinking with my heart
I act with my thinking from my heart
but I'm just a human being with a heart and not a rational thinker
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#63. I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.
Ted Shackelford
#64. It's nothing really. It's the unique presentation that makes me look good in the action scenes. Why did I dare do them? That's a funny question! Why do I act? Why do I breathe!
Amitabh Bachchan
#65. Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.
Zephyr Teachout
#66. I think we all live dichotomies. I'm a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.
Tim Blake Nelson
#67. 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
#68. Directors tell me what to do, and I kind of just put my own twist to it, just to get inside my personality that everybody doesn't really get to see - my off-the-court interests and the way I act. It's just me.
Kyrie Irving
#69. On the day when I act," says the LORD Almighty, "they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him. And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.
Anonymous
#70. I decide to do what I always do when I'm not sure what's going on: I act like everyone else.
Veronica Roth
#71. When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.
Ethel Waters
#72. I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are.
John Zorn
#73. The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are.
Kelly Reilly
#74. I've always seen actresses who constantly date their leading men or somebody they co-star with, and I've been the opposite. Once I act with you, I feel like you're my brother.
Eva Longoria
#75. 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
#76. Agile is an attitude, not a technique with boundaries. An attitude has no boundaries, so we wouldn't ask 'can I use agile here', but rather 'how would I act in the agile way here?' or 'how agile can we be, here?'
Alistair Cockburn
#77. In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.
Bobby Brown
#78. I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
Werner Herzog
#79. The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life, just being easy-going New Zealander Rose. Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be.
Rose McIver
#80. My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up.
Slavoj Zizek
#81. I can feel guilty about the past,
Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Abraham H. Maslow
#82. I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.
Liev Schreiber
#83. 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
#84. Why is it amazing that I don't act my age? Why should I act my age? Or more to the point, how is someone my age supposed to act? Old age is part fact, part state of mind, part luck, and wholly something best left for other people to ponder, not you or me. Why waste your time? I don't.
Dick Van Dyke
#85. I make fun of guys when I like them. I act like I'm 10 years old. I do it as a test to see if they can laugh at themselves. If they get sensitive, then it's like, 'Um, this isn't going to work.'
Lauren Conrad
#87. I want to be good for the world - pure and true and wise and somehow saintly, somehow illuminated. I want to have experienced something that has changed me, and so I act changed.
Hilary T. Smith
#88. Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.
Robert Englund
#89. Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.
Rachel Roberts
#90. I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
Ethel Waters
#91. How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
Ian McKellen
#92. When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.
Vivien Leigh
#93. And even though i act crazy I gotta thank the lord that you made meh.
Tupac Shakur
#94. I look 10 years younger than I am. Unfortunately, sometimes I act like I'm 10 years old.
Natalie Cole
#96. 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
#97. i act harder than i am.
i am softer than i look.
AVA.
#98. Most women are motivated so I act accordingly
But this is so refreshing that it means a little more to me
Drake
#99. Don't you agree that if I act like there is nothing going on, other people will behave that way too?
Nichole Chase
#100. When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.
Nicolas Cage
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