Act Quotes

Anybody can act.

— Udo Kier

I love to act.

— Lorenzo Lamas

To love is to act.

— Victor Hugo

I always wanted to act.

— Adam Rickitt

Before you act, listen.

— Anonymous

I'm an urban act.

— Maluma

“I give away examples!”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

I just like to act.

— Cathy Rigby

“Let your words be petty and actions plenty!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Words can be an act of reductionism.

— O. T. Fagbenle

Criticism is, or ought to be, a judicious act.

— Amitava Kumar

I knew I wanted to act when I was around 14.

— Daniel Stern

“Action achieves ambition.”

— Amit Kalantri

If you're an actor, go out and act.

— Simon McBurney

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

— Richard Powers

I'm not one of those people who has an act.

— Ani DiFranco

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.

— Rebecca Hall

I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.

— Samantha Isler

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

When LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the modern Southern GOP was born.

— Steve Kornacki

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

— Jess Walter

I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.

— P. Chidambaram

If I couldn't act, I'd really love to try music.

— Ryan Eggold

“Christlikeness means to live and act as Christ lived and acted.”

— Jim George

“To shape a dream well, understand that it is going to happen through processes in which your hands must get on board.…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I liked the so-called Volcker Rule. I would have separated investment banking and commercial, deposit banking, as we did under the Glass-Steagal…

— John C. Bogle

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well…

— Damian Lewis

“Make your own methods of study, read development books, create a plan, be committed, put passion on it, and act for your…

— Alan Maiccon

I'm an actress and I want to act, and I'm a mom and I want to be with my kids, and it's…

— Julianne Nicholson

People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way…

— Kendrick Lamar

I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more…

— Rick Perlstein

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to…

— Jodie Foster

I loved my soap days. I really loved them. A Martinez and Marcy Walker taught me how to act, basically. All those…

— Ally Walker

I've heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for…

— Anonymous

All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own…

— Patrick Stump

Well, I definitely have an artistic side to me as well. I write, I act, I draw. With that artistic mind I…

— Vinny Guadagnino

In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike…

— Michael Leunig

“Stop and say something good about yourself! Believe what you have just said! Pray for what you have just believed! Have faith…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a…

— Park Chan-wook

My favorite thing is to be working with people I enjoy working with. I've reached the point where, emotionally, I don't need…

— Alan Arkin