Top 100 They Act Like Quotes

#1. When men want to kiss you they act like they are just on the brink of doing something that's going to change the whole wide world.

Barbara Kingsolver

They Act Like Quotes #22319
#2. My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Gad Elmaleh

They Act Like Quotes #22502
#3. Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

They Act Like Quotes #44435
#4. For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

Kirstie Alley

They Act Like Quotes #48187
#5. Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to?

Tamora Pierce

They Act Like Quotes #60198
#6. Things are grouped together for a reason, but, once they are grouped, their grouping causes them to seem more like each other than they otherwise would. That is, the mere act of classification reinforces stereotypes. If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification. Amos's

Michael Lewis

They Act Like Quotes #70601
#7. I don't think that I look, act and feel younger than I am, I know I do. I'm not irresponsible, just hyper and active like a younger person is. I have a lot of younger friends. I don't have any problems in particular with people my own age, save that I sometimes think they are boring.

Rudy Simone

They Act Like Quotes #75372
#8. When you act obnoxious towards people, like on a movie set, they say "we're ready for you" and I say "oh, go to hell, my feet hurt and my head aches." You want to have a margarita for lunch, and people like these little ADs and production assistants are like, "well, he's drinking again."

Bill Murray

They Act Like Quotes #82594
#9. With tears of penitence and poignant, tender anguish, he will exclaim: 'Others are better than I, they wanted to save me, not to ruin me!' Oh, this act of mercy is so easy for you, for in the absence of anything like real evidence it will be too awful for you to pronounce: 'Yes, he is guilty.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They Act Like Quotes #85909
#10. I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.

Mark Goddard

They Act Like Quotes #87248
#11. When I was a kid people always asked why I didn't act like the rest of my family, and parents would say, "Well, she needs a childhood! We would never allow her to do that even if she wanted to". They were as involved in my life as any parents are in any person's life.

Blake Lively

They Act Like Quotes #96663
#12. Women think they can act like evil monsters from hell and be loved like a princess. It's as if the dragon and the witch was in them and not in the world.

Robin Sacredfire

They Act Like Quotes #105663
#13. Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults.

Harvey Kurtzman

They Act Like Quotes #111992
#14. I want to be still and small, and not have to man up or act like everything's okay, but the thing about living in a house where someone is sick is, it's like they have a monopoly on it. If one person is always needing things , then no one else is really allowed to.

Brenna Yovanoff

They Act Like Quotes #112882
#15. Women constantly meet glances which act like mirrors reminding them of how they look or how they should look. Behind every glance there is judgment.

John Berger

They Act Like Quotes #115686
#16. If I had three wishes for my country, they would be these: keep fighting, keep moving forward, and don't act like a douchebag.

Michael Ian Black

They Act Like Quotes #120399
#17. People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.

Michael Harrington

They Act Like Quotes #125021
#18. I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

Dane Cook

They Act Like Quotes #125618
#19. What worries me the most is that most men are so weak. Because of that they act like they don't care and like machos - because they are too fragile inside. They're scared of confrontation and afraid of so many things.

Salma Hayek

They Act Like Quotes #131186
#20. I find a lot of people struggling in their lives because they feel like it was expected they do a certain thing or act a certain way and not follow what their gut is telling them to do.

Kelly Oxford

They Act Like Quotes #136087
#21. A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.

Reza Aslan

They Act Like Quotes #138088
#22. Girls bat their eyelashes and act like they don't know anything in front of guys they like, or give a little bit of eye contact, but not too much, or a bit of touching. Or being coy. Sure, I do a bit of that.

Hilary Duff

They Act Like Quotes #139445
#23. My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up like the movie 'Hugo,' and then just say, 'Act,' you know?

Gillian Jacobs

They Act Like Quotes #147043
#24. I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.

Kaz Cooke

They Act Like Quotes #152215
#25. If you're a car salesman, and someone says "This is a terrible car, I'm not buying it," it doesn't mean they hate you. They just don't like your product. I think that's a mistake a lot of people in show business make.. they're so tied to their act they take everything personally.

Jay Leno

They Act Like Quotes #154290
#26. They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

Joseph Heller

They Act Like Quotes #167280
#27. The world is filled with fools like S'kot, and worse, with the fools who let them act as wardens over them. They deserve each other. I don't care what they think of me and neither should you.

R. Lee Smith

They Act Like Quotes #172385
#28. I still do lots of gigs where I'm the support act and people are chatting through my set, but I've got better at grabbing attention. I mean, my parents would play on bills with people like Judas Priest and get booed all the way through. But they stuck it out, got tough.

Teddy Thompson

They Act Like Quotes #173902
#29. My parents told me they knew they made lots of mistakes raising us, but that they did their best. Most parents will say something like that at some point, and they are usually right. But I think children also do their best while being raised. Finding family "happiness" is a fine balancing act.

Torill Kove

They Act Like Quotes #195231
#30. I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions.

Alexei Panshin

They Act Like Quotes #202794
#31. I always say there's no more little girls, just boys with breasts. Girls act like boys nowadays. Teenage girls, they go after boys. They're predatory just like boys. My goal is to keep my girls, girls.

Chris Rock

They Act Like Quotes #205006
#32. You don't have to love someone to have sex with them.'
'I know that,' I say, trying to act like I'm not embarrassed for thinking love and sex are the same thing. I know they're not but I want them to be close enough to at least brush each other as they pass.

Cath Crowley

They Act Like Quotes #211907
#33. Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.

Joss Whedon

They Act Like Quotes #215368
#34. With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.

Maiara Walsh

They Act Like Quotes #229719
#35. On 'Workaholics,' I feel like I'm just hanging out with my buddies being filmed, but on 'Mindy,' I'm around professional funny people who act. Guys like Chris Messina, who are the real deal. I watch what they do and put my own spin on it.

Anders Holm

They Act Like Quotes #241679
#36. When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.

Elaine Scarry

They Act Like Quotes #257390
#37. Why are babies allowed to cry when they wake up, but adults crying when they wake is frowned upon? Babies are permitted to act like assholes whenever they feel like it and no one blinks ...

Chelsea Handler

They Act Like Quotes #265910
#38. 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

They Act Like Quotes #271457
#39. It's a real shame. I like how people act on holidays. Everyone just seems ... I don't know
lighter, maybe. Like they're allowed to have fun all day long and eat anything they want and do silly things, and no one cares because, hey, it's a holiday, so why not?

John Corey Whaley

They Act Like Quotes #275638
#40. You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

Mike Schmidt

They Act Like Quotes #281694
#41. Methods like this act as "factories" in that they take raw materials (such as row data, for example, or
configuration information) and use them to produce objects. The term factory is applied to code
designed to generate object instances.

Matt Zandstra

They Act Like Quotes #287317
#42. A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

Frank Dane

They Act Like Quotes #294966
#43. Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.

Salman Rushdie

They Act Like Quotes #297052
#44. That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.

Haley Joel Osment

They Act Like Quotes #312693
#45. But I could not fully admit it, even then. The way Suzanne's face looked as she watched him - I wanted to be with her. I thought that loving someone acted as a kind of protective measure, like they'd understand the scale and intensity of your feelings and act accordingly.

Emma Cline

They Act Like Quotes #318626
#46. When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

Simone De Beauvoir

They Act Like Quotes #328457
#47. I like to act with people that know what they're doing.

Ed Harris

They Act Like Quotes #332263
#48. You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

Tarsem Singh

They Act Like Quotes #335323
#49. The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about.

Jostein Gaarder

They Act Like Quotes #346432
#50. I don't know what it is, but even when I pretty much like a man, after I date him a while, he gets to seem kind of tiresome. I just can't be bothered to act interested anymore, and then I finally tell him I don't want to go out anymore. They always get upset. - Lillian

Charlaine Harris

They Act Like Quotes #347509
#51. When you get saved, act like you got some sense. You hear me? Whole lotta folks get saved and it take them an entire life before they start living by God's word. That's them ol' deathbed conversioners, them ol' heathens trying to get to heaven a lifetime too late.

Kiese Laymon

They Act Like Quotes #370884
#52. We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Dora Russell

They Act Like Quotes #375282
#53. People tend to focus on the things that they don't like about themselves. While that's important for change, it's equally important to focus on what they love about themselves. For every one thing you dislike about yourself, think of five things you like about yourself. It's a balancing act.

Tom Giaquinto

They Act Like Quotes #380775
#54. Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.

Rachel Hunter

They Act Like Quotes #385194
#55. Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'

Evan Sayet

They Act Like Quotes #388448
#56. If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

Frances Farmer

They Act Like Quotes #390079
#57. The best books act like a powerful drug--they take you out of your own head into experiences, emotions and settings a million miles away.

Anonymous-9

They Act Like Quotes #392396
#58. I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

Valerie Cruz

They Act Like Quotes #398289
#59. Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgments by it? Alas! The greater part of Christians think and act like mere heathens; if we judge (as we justly may) of their faith by their practice, we must conclude they have no faith at all.

Francois Fenelon

They Act Like Quotes #411627
#60. But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like
history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.

Orson Scott Card

They Act Like Quotes #412058
#61. When you act like a nice guy, everyone examines your motives with a microscope. When you act like a conscienceless louse, they generally take you at face value.

Donald Hamilton

They Act Like Quotes #412442
#62. A public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside ... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?

Jodi Picoult

They Act Like Quotes #414130
#63. And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors.

Conor Oberst

They Act Like Quotes #423710
#64. So why don't they face us ... examine our evidence, debate, talk ... act like real historians instead of thought-police? Why shut us out of the media, pass laws against our speaking, persecute us, sue us, and vilify us?

Randolph D. Calverhall

They Act Like Quotes #425362
#65. We see Stage Two mostly when people believe they cannot act creatively, where jobs are so mechanized that they feel like part of a machine.

Dave Logan

They Act Like Quotes #443736
#66. If there are to be rules, they must be articulable and defensible, like etiquette. I do not do anything simply because my family did it. I do things because they make sense, and because they are elegant.

Kathleen Rooney

They Act Like Quotes #445397
#67. As Marx amusingly put it elsewhere, in boom economies everybody acts like a Protestant - they act on pure faith. When the crash comes, though, everyone dives for cover in the "Catholicism" of the monetary base, real gold.

David Harvey

They Act Like Quotes #448950
#68. Men like him were so used to getting their own way with a quick smile, a murmured
word, they didn't know how to act with a woman who stood firmly on her own feet.

Nora Roberts

They Act Like Quotes #454587
#69. The lesson for me was clear: national security officials do not like the light. They act abusively and thuggishly only when they believe they are safe, in the dark. Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, we discovered, its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

Glenn Greenwald

They Act Like Quotes #467473
#70. I think the thing about it is when you grow up in Chicago there's such a thing as putting on airs, you know? And you just learn not to put on airs. Don't act like, 'Oh boy, I'm somebody.' They'll slap you down.

Bob Newhart

They Act Like Quotes #475609
#71. People are successful because they think and act like successful people.

Roy Bennett

They Act Like Quotes #481126
#72. Most of the time when there's a communication problem, it's because the message being received is not the message you want. It's not that they don't know what they need to do, how we need to act as a team, whatever. If you don't like the message, then you go say there's a communication problem.

Mike D'Antoni

They Act Like Quotes #481830
#73. Children are natural imitators. They act just like their parents in spite of the effort to teach them good manners.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

They Act Like Quotes #492187
#74. Now they both act around each other like you do when you know something is going to end and you've decided not to know.

Ava Dellaira

They Act Like Quotes #509023
#75. They spend their time acquiring wisdom, acquiring wealth, or contributing to society. The problem is that many people act like they will live forever on earth and waste away their time in worthless pursuits. For example, try to imagine - what would you do if you only had one month to live?

H.W. Charles

They Act Like Quotes #515130
#76. Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

George Eliot

They Act Like Quotes #530909
#77. I remember when I first wanted to act my parents were supportive, but it was that they were like please, if you can find something else in the world, don't do this. So it wasn't even they're like 'Oh we've been waiting for you to arrive, welcome to the family business' kind of thing.

Troian Bellisario

They Act Like Quotes #550069
#78. My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they're my best friends.

Joe Rogan

They Act Like Quotes #553100
#79. Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you.

John Green

They Act Like Quotes #554045
#80. Programmers are like magicians who fool everyone into thinking they are perfect and never wrong, but it's all an act. They make mistakes all the time.

Zed A. Shaw

They Act Like Quotes #562041
#81. Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken ... a useless thing. Then make an offer.

Billie Letts

They Act Like Quotes #584489
#82. Ex-girlfriends will find themselves in my new routine. Sometimes they like that, and sometimes they definitely do not. But comedians should come with a giant warning or disclaimer: IF YOU DATE ME, IT WILL BE IN MY ACT.

Dane Cook

They Act Like Quotes #586870
#83. I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.

Gary Shteyngart

They Act Like Quotes #590315
#84. I've definitely met nightmare Hollywood types who think they're getting twenty million dollars a picture when they're not. But they act like it. And they just insult everybody.

Brendan Sexton III

They Act Like Quotes #593901
#85. 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

They Act Like Quotes #614582
#86. He impressed people. Unconsciously. Some people are like that. I'm not. There's something in those people that breaks down all the barriers, because they act completely the way they are, have nothing to hide, never shelter behind anything, are just themselves, straightforward.

Arnaldur Indridason

They Act Like Quotes #616281
#87. You are a creator of content, a wizard of words. They need you. Act like it.

Jeff Goins

They Act Like Quotes #625759
#88. It's all about attitude. You act like you're the shit and guys are so dumb they'll totally believe it.

Jenny Han

They Act Like Quotes #627392
#89. I don't know why I'm always surprised when vampires act as weird as ordinary humans. It's not like they gain the wisdom of the ages with the transformation.

Nalini Singh

They Act Like Quotes #627809
#90. Not all black people are loud, ghetto, and ignorant, Some of them act like they got some common sense.

Vj Nadar

They Act Like Quotes #630299
#91. I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel or kind, and they act on the basis of that - often in the face of the prevailing limits of behaviour.

Morris Gleitzman

They Act Like Quotes #631634
#92. You take girls, for example. They're copying their moms and magazines and everything to know how to act around guys. I mean it's not like in movies where girls like assholes or anything like that. It's not that easy. They just like somebody that can give them purpose.

Stephen Chbosky

They Act Like Quotes #631834
#93. Somehow, when the authoritarians on the Right search for icons of manly warrior power to venerate, they find only those who like to melodramatically play-act as such, but who ran away when it came time to actually perform.

Glenn Greenwald

They Act Like Quotes #632681
#94. Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.

Heraclitus

They Act Like Quotes #639200
#95. I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

Robert Downey Jr.

They Act Like Quotes #654286
#96. When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find.

Kevin Mitnick

They Act Like Quotes #659136
#97. I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.

D.H. Lawrence

They Act Like Quotes #662944
#98. Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don't.

Barbra Streisand

They Act Like Quotes #667833
#99. When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What's your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

Emil Cioran

They Act Like Quotes #669586
#100. If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you.

Susan May Warren

They Act Like Quotes #674376

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