Acting Quotes

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The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action. — Nikos Kazantzakis
The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being. — Laozi
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest… — Thomas Jefferson
I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live… — Virginia Satir
What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying? — Laurence Olivier
A lot of what acting is is paying attention. — Robert Redford
Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our… — Larry Page
A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. — Carlos Castaneda
So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more… — Winston Churchill
The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as… — John C. Calhoun
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views… — Charles Lyell
Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real power that gives… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures... — John Owen
Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings;… — John Owen
I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work. — Adolf Hitler
People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share their beliefs as inferior in the eyes of… — Ron Reagan
I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's… — Helen Hunt
I learned years ago, I adore acting and I think it's the most alive I know how to be - almost - but I really… — Kathleen Turner
Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking,… — Eddie Redmayne
Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part… — Helen Hunt

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