Top 100 To Act Quotes
#1. To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
Marcus Aurelius
#2. The only way that I can survive such a fucked up reality is to act like everything on the outside no longer exists; and that includes feelings, especially feelings for a man." I
Jessica N. Watkins
#3. The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.
Jacques Maritain
#4. Get your hand off me," I exclaimed, voice loud with misplaced anger as I yanked away from his grip. "I'm a professional, not some distraught girlfriend." Well, I was that too, but I knew how to act at a crime scene.
Kim Harrison
#5. We need to start acting like a team, focus on winning and not worry about all of the other stuff that goes on. We lost our focus last year. We worried about who was being hired, who was being fired. That's got to change. We don't need any more finger pointing. We need to act like a team.
Albert Belle
#6. There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.
Jeanne Shaheen
#7. I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just want to act.
Steve Zahn
#8. No matter how tough you've been trying to act lately, I know that deep down you have a heart that bleeds in the presence of injustice.
Colleen Hoover
#9. 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
#10. Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
Patrick Kane
#11. You get to act for a living. You're fortunate. So act like it.
Jeremy London
#12. Being born as an Indigo, the most difficult mission is to be strong enough to retain your true "self" while living in human stereotype society. Having to pretend, to act "the same as others," can only make you so deeply unhappy and hurt - feeling as though your "wings" have been cut off.
Sahara Sanders
#13. An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. This is what it means to be educated.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#14. We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.
Laurie Anderson
#15. There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance.
C.J. Cherryh
#16. The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.
Roger Garaudy
#17. Memory, imagination, and passionately responding in accord with the deeply embedded impulse to act with decency are pliable mechanisms that we can employ to attain happiness.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#18. I had wanted to act since I was a kid, but I had a lot of shame attached to it. I didn't tell anyone because I didn't think it was ever a possibility.
Mickey Sumner
#19. It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#20. A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
Frank Zappa
#21. Take charity work for example; the motivation of my various charitable activities is neither for fame nor profits. It is my sincere wish that, through my efforts, more people can realize how important it is to protect our planet and to start to act for a change.
Li Bingbing
#22. I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
Dustin Hoffman
#23. Maintaining the thinnest facade of a functioning family that tries to act as others do - plan ahead, drive somewhere, go on holiday, relax - is beyond us. We are smashed. Insecurity jams the gears on every action. Each time we are toppled. I feel a fool over and over again for trying.
Marion Coutts
#25. Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism
Khaled Hosseini
#26. Dare to believe
Dare to live
Dare to act
Dare to fact
Dare to sail
Dare to fail
Dare to give
Dare to forgive
Debasish Mridha
#27. Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.
Alphonsus Liguori
#28. Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.
L. Frank Baum
#29. 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
#30. Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test ...
Henry Giroux
#31. Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best we possibly can and to refrain from complaining about it. Where ever you find yourself and in whatever circumstances, give an impeccable performance.
Epictetus
#32. IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#33. A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.
Erwin McManus
#34. ...It doesn't pay to act bulletproof. Nobody is flawless and when you act as if you are, it always rings false.
Biz Stone
#35. Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true.
Dallas Willard
#36. Mia," Kim said, an edge of warning in her voice signaling the end of her patience. "You're starting to act like one of those girls. Do you need to get me a gun?
Gayle Forman
#37. The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive ... and begin to act accordingly.
Shakti Gawain
#38. A lot of people have been telling me how brave I am. I've always thought it was a mistake to get a reputation for courage, on the grounds that if you acted bravely once, people would expect you to act courageously again, and you might be having an off day.
Starhawk
#39. If you continue to act now and be a member of the WWE Universe, you will see the same footage from ... another ... camera angle.
John Cena
#40. To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.
Marshall Allman
#41. To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.
Helena Blavatsky
#42. I've been extremely lucky in that I've been a very successful model for a long time. So now I'm an actress and a mother. I'm a theatre rat, which I always wanted to be - I've wanted to act since I was 14 - and I never get bored, ever, and I have four beautiful children. I am, in fact, so darn lucky.
Jerry Hall
#43. I was always, as a younger actress, very conscious of not wanting to act sexy. I didn't see myself like that. But I think as a woman, you get older, you feel more confident in your sexuality. You're not as intimidated by it, not as embarrassed by it.
Reese Witherspoon
#44. Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Thomas Huxley
#46. The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#47. If a face like Ingrid Bergman's looks at you as though you're adorable, everybody does. You don't have to act very much.
Humphrey Bogart
#48. The boy I used to know as Thomas Merker has been erased
replaced with a personality programmed by television and commercials to act a certain way.
Brian James
#49. All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.
Josh Peck
#50. Fear is the bane of all creatures and bubbles inside all forming a rock of solidifying darkness, sucking all will power to act or to think or to say away. Fear is the bane of all creatures, it is our black hole we cannot live without.
Isabella Irini Poretsis
#51. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
Winston S. Churchill
#52. Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#53. Even a committed realist will concede that there are many situations where an absolute standard of truth is unavailable. And yet, confronted with such situations, we often continue to act as if right and wrong are the relevant yardsticks.
Kathryn Schulz
#54. Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
Abhishek Bachchan
#56. Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!
Eliphas Levi
#57. Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.
Elizabeth Goudge
#58. Although I've played a wide variety of roles, I've never had the chance to act in a story written specially for me. It's a pity as they are the only stories that really let you reveal your personality.
Grace Kelly
#59. I was getting better at controlling my emotional reactions. When feelings overwhelmed me, I learned to thwart the burning temptation to act self-destructively and to sit with the feelings instead.
Rachel Reiland
#60. An experienced designer with more freedom to act might have realised that there was just too much optimism in the Ares I concept: that a shuttle SRB was simply too small as a first stage for a rocket carrying the relatively heavy Orion spacecraft.
Henry Spencer
#61. The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
#62. In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.
John Reed
#64. If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman ... You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying to act.
Russell Peters
#65. The disposition of the heart is man's, but the preparation of the tongue is the Lord's." [Prov. 16:1, 9, conflated.] It is an absurd folly that miserable men take it upon themselves to act without God, when they cannot even speak except as he wills!
John Calvin
#66. I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.
Rainey Qualley
#67. I just want to act. I just want to do the work.
Alison Lohman
#68. It is time to stop talking so much about what kind of leaders we want, to give less lip service to what Washington or Wall Street or Hollywood should do, and to act a lot more like citizens who actually deserve freedom.
Oliver DeMille
#69. You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age.
Josh Schwartz
#70. My concern has always been with creating images that catch people's eyes, penetrate their minds, warm their hearts and cause them to act.
George Lois
#71. A few years later, in the midst of a brief academic setback, she trained him to act as her emotional cheerleader. I'd call and hear him in the background, screaming, "We love you, Lisa!" and "You can do it!
David Sedaris
#72. They don't want you to act a certain way. They want you to think a certain way.
Veronica Roth
#73. People say, "Why is it that you love to act?" And you want to say, "Well, most of acting is sitting in your trailer, either bored or worried about the scene coming up." A lot of it is about things you don't really like, so it's a wonder why acting is such a huge draw, why everyone loves it so much.
Anjelica Huston
#75. I mostly lived in my dimension
Built up of fantasies and dreams,
Hardly a seeker of attention,
Yet, I preferred to act on whims.
Tatyana K. Varenko
#76. The problem is not finding the needs of people in our lives; the problem is caring enough to act in a manner that is far different than perhaps we have acted previously.
Ted Rivera
#77. Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#78. At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
Aldous Huxley
#79. I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.
Robert Black
#80. When a woman is pregnant, her freedom to choose her future for herself - and to act on that choice, whatever it may be - is the most powerful express of human agency there can be.
Ann Furedi
#81. Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act ...
Aristotle.
#82. Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.
Howard Zinn
#83. In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.
Orhan Pamuk
#84. Safety is only an illusion when evil is on the hunt. I can't stand by and watch. I have to act.
Terry Goodkind
#85. The meek shall indeed inherit the earth. They have the power to act rationally instead of reacting emotionally.
David M. Butcher
#86. To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.
Scott Caan
#87. It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley.
Navi Rawat
#88. It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.
Richard Cecil
#89. Can someone be truly good if they never have the opportunity to act badly?
Christopher Paolini
#90. If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it ... Just be real and it will be funnier
Gene Wilder
#91. You can't be so frightened of what might happen that you are unwilling to act.
Brandon Sanderson
#92. Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#94. Perhaps I lost sight of my dreams when I became an adult and resigned myself to acting the way adults were supposed to act.
Robin S. Sharma
#95. The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
Oscar Isaac
#96. When Louis relaxed, it was an indication that a threat was at hand and he was preparing to act, as when an archer releases a breath simultaneously with the flight of an arrow, channeling all of the tension into the flighted missile itself.
John Connolly
#97. 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
#98. There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
J. William Fulbright
#99. I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino.
Hugh Laurie
#100. I'm glad to have grown up in the countryside and played, and had to use my imagination rather than a TV and had to learn to act the hard way, to have dealt with the rejection. It's a life as well as a job, at the end the day, we all have to work for a living, but we have to have a life as well.
Jason Clarke
