Top 100 Quotes About Acted
#1. LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of those who have acted.
Some use FAITH to describe what others call LUCK
Elie Jerome
#2. He took her hand in his and kissed her fingers, then shook his head. "I wouldn't have let you get away. I was angry and I acted foolishly, but I would have gotten you back. Whatever it took, I would have gotten you back. You're my answer, Zoe. You're my salvation.
Elliot Mabeuse
#3. It is possible to state as a general principle that the mesodermic phagocytes, which originally (as in the sponges of our days) acted as digestive cells, retained their role to absorb the dead or weakened parts of the organism as much as different foreign intruders.
Elie Metchnikoff
#4. The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick
#5. It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.
John C. Calhoun
#6. The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God's will just by breathing.
Maya Banks
#7. I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other people seemed to think of me - as funny from a very young age. I was a very young comedy nerd and I even did sketch comedy in high school and college. I wrote and shot sketches on video and acted in them.
Andy Daly
#8. In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which he played - the part he acted - and we must also know his audience.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#9. Content has no economic value unless it's shared and it's acted on.
Mark Schaefer
#10. If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.
Carlisle Floyd
#11. He's bald," she said.
"He shaved the top of his head because he felt his hair acted as a barrier between him and God."
"Wow. Really?"
"No.
Tiffany Reisz
#12. I acted on my core beliefs on social issues as governor.
Jeb Bush
#13. I use improvisation as a writing tool to help produce material that goes into a script, but a well-crafted script shouldn't sound scripted, and oftentimes people confuse something that looks like improvisation for what is actually a very well-written script that is well-acted.
Steve Coogan
#14. I never really acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me started.
Freddie Highmore
#15. The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
Wendell Phillips
#16. Titanic I thought was the most dreadful piece of work I've ever seen in my entire life. Another film that I think is equally bad was American Beauty. So badly acted and directed. But people like that.
Robert Altman
#17. I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.
Shiri Appleby
#18. Discipline is the wholehearted yes to the call of God. When I know myself called, summoned, addressed, taken possession of, known, acted upon, I have heard the Master. I put myself gladly, fully, and forever at His disposal, and to whatever He says my answer is yes.
Elisabeth Elliot
#19. The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.
Voltaire
#20. True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.
Stephen Covey
#21. I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
Walter Huston
#22. more precious than ever. And Mama and Claude acted like randy
Haywood Smith
#23. Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs.
Jim Gerlach
#24. I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
Viggo Mortensen
#25. The miracles of our Lord are not miracles only. They are most frequently acted parables also.
J.B. Lightfoot
#26. Benedict and Bernard and the other true monastic peacemakers of history have been effective because they have acted from a deep source of peace within themselves, dating a context for peace. This is the contribution a Christian man or woman of peace can make.
M. Basil Pennington
#27. But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.
Stephen Fry
#28. Wisdom that is not acted upon is just philosophy ... but when lived as a verb, wisdom will be the foundation of your success.
Steve Maraboli
#29. I've acted just to get to directing.
Mel Ferrer
#30. I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.
Mickey Rourke
#31. Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#32. Was I good or bad or mixed or what? And was the way I acted every day the real me, or was the real me somewhere so deep that I would never even know it?
Cynthia Kadohata
#33. The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.
H. Rider Haggard
#34. He was beyond gorgeous. But Eastlake High was full of pretty people who acted like total freaks. I blame the local water supply. Which was why I drank bottled water.
Rachel Vincent
#35. I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.
Ann Richards
#36. Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways.
Malcolm X
#37. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects us fools who love to act.
J.K. Rowling
#38. Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.
C.S. Lewis
#39. but the truth is this. Peter opened his heart and mind to the Spirit's movement and acted as he was directed. Nothing more. We are merely hands and feet for the Spirit's use.
Janette Oke
#40. I want to say It's okay to be a person. We're all afraid. We all get hurt. It's okay to hurt. You'd be so much more likable if you just acted human.
Jennifer Niven
#41. I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant
Cary Grant
#42. In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt repressed or wished to bring about change or have acted out of selfish reasons, thinking that if they tore the house down they might end up with a shingle.
James E. Faust
#43. Tansy had acted like a thug and reacted like a heroine, and if that wasn't one of the best combinations I'd ever encountered, I didn't know what was.
Mira Grant
#44. Government is truly beginning to embrace the power of innovation for the people and by the people, the idea that if government collaborates openly with and unleashes the ingenuity of the public, it will get much more done, much faster and at much lower cost than if government acted alone.
Todd Park
#45. People must know that their ideas will be listened to and, if they have merit, acted upon. If they do, it is possible to mobilize individual creativity on a very broad scale.
James A. Champy
#46. Children rarely follow parental advice unless it is acted out repeatedly. It's called being an example.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#47. Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#48. We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe.
Jane Goodall
#49. In the photo, he and some old girlfriend smiled - greasy faces idiotic with hope that the picture would one day remind them that for three seconds they acted happy and thought it final.
Sam Pink
#50. I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.
John Connolly
#51. I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.
Morgan Freeman
#52. When you have got the greatest mountain of hardship that you've ever faced to deal with, you also have the greatest opportunity to act on a stronger faith than you've ever acted on before.
Calvin W. Allison
#53. A successful story always offers its audience more than a simple resolution of events. A story offers a dramatic affirmation of human needs that are acted out to resolution and fulfillment. Even when that resolution and fulfillment are dark, the journey can still be vivid, potent and illuminating.
Bill Johnson
#54. A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life
Honore De Balzac
#55. The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
Thornton Wilder
#56. You can't talk your way out of a situation you acted you way into.
John Kador
#57. advanced socialbot software, a program to create and operate fake profiles that looked and acted like real people on Circles. Socialbots were designed to befriend real Circles users and dupe them into divulging their sensitive personal and financial information.
Scott Allan Morrison
#58. I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.
Jim Carrey
#59. Of course I acted in school plays but mostly as angels or mushrooms.
Maj Sjowall
#60. The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.
Les Brown
#61. She deliberated too much afore making decisions; he acted on instinct. He liked Oreos, she preferred pasta worms.
Sandra Hill
#62. America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
Louis D. Brandeis
#63. [Jesus] not only kept Himself from engaging in evil, He also continually acted in ways that honored and glorified god. He not only continually avoided the negative, He always pursued the positive.
David Jeremiah
#64. Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there's nothing else that you'd rather do.
Jane Badler
#65. I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.
Patti LuPone
#66. Inviting children as gospel learners to act and not merely be acted upon builds on reading and talking about the Book of Mormon and bearing testimony spontaneously in the home.
David A. Bednar
#67. During these times of indecision when all the old answers are proven false, the people look back to the dead to give them a clue, they call first upon one and then upon another of those who have acted in the past.
Ralph Ellison
#68. Tino laughed with him and then asked, "What the hell is up with you? You acted like I murdered your mother today."
"Not funny." Chuito sobered. "Mafia doesn't get to make jokes about murdering my mother.
Kele Moon
#69. Every woman is harmed by the cultural expectation that women are decorative possessions, sexual objects to be acted upon; and every man benefits from having been socialized to be the actor.
Anonymous
#70. Good ideas must be shared, improved upon with the help of other good thinkers, and then they must be implemented and acted upon.
John C. Maxwell
#72. Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.
Pat Conroy
#74. Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at birth. Eloquence may set fire to reason.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#75. Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.
Steven Spielberg
#76. The thing with thoughts is that they die, like everything else. But almost everything else leaves a trace behind, even if it's a tiny carcass, some proof that it existed. Unless thoughts are spoken or written or sung or acted upon, there's no evidence that they were ever there.
Adi Alsaid
#77. In Los Angeles on Black Friday, a woman pepper sprayed Wal-Mart shoppers who tried to cut in line. The police acted fast by immediately hiring her to get rid of peaceful protesters outside banking institutions all across the United States.
Craig Ferguson
#78. He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.
Augusto Pinochet
#79. If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.
Immanuel Kant
#80. I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.
Luke Evans
#81. I'm gay."
"Oh. Of course." Immediately, Martin regretted saying "of course". He should have acted surprised. People are flattered if you act surprised when they come out, something Martin thought was stupid and vaguely homophobic but...
Marshall Thornton
#82. The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently.
Walter Lippmann
#83. What evidence could possibly be put forward to show that one could have acted differently in the past?
Sam Harris
#84. The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school ... I was desperate to communicate.
Bruce Dern
#85. The way I acted...It wasn't you"
"Oh, no. You're not even human. You don't get to use the It's not you, it's me line!
Melissa Landers
#86. Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.
R. Scott Bakker
#87. If we argue that since all bodies are perishable, one may kill, does it follow that I may kill all the women and children in the Ashram? Would I have in doing so acted according to the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita, merely because their bodies are perishable? What,
Mahatma Gandhi
#88. There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bush's presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war were linked to his impatience with complexity. He acted 'from the gut,' and was economical with the truth until it disappeared.
Teju Cole
#89. My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose.
Emily Levine
#90. I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction.
Richard Hatch
#91. I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that's what I want to do.
David Tennant
#92. We each have words for "love" in our languages. What would the world look like if we acted on that one word for humanity's sake?
Julie Saffrin
#93. I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.
Grant Heslov
#94. Noah acted like he felt nothing because he felt everything. He seemed not to care because he cared too much.
Michelle Hodkin
#95. By the time you're reading this warning, you've already acted responsibly.
Hugh Howey
#96. The players I respected most were the toughest players, not those who talked a good game or blocked a shot and acted like a fool.
Jay Bilas
#97. They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
J.D. Salinger
#98. If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585).
Richard Baxter
#99. If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.
Epictetus
#100. I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could on topics that ranged from Folklore to history to political mainifestos ... I ranted and raved and seethed about things beyond my control. In short I acted like a Canadian.
Will Ferguson
