Acting Quotes

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The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to… — Susan Sontag
I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I… — Emile M. Cioran
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. — Mahatma Gandhi
A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are… — Niccolo Machiavelli
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. — Lauren Bacall
Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities.… — H. P. Blavatsky
Enthusiasm needs to be effective enthusiasm. We must distinguish between the contribution and enthusiasm of the cheerleader and the enthusiasm of the player. While cheerleaders… — Neal A. Maxwell
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can. — Ashleigh Brilliant
the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that,… — Albert Einstein
This business of friendship was a curious thing, almost as difficult to learn as the busuness of acting. Sometimes you were expected to tell the… — Gary L. Blackwood
It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only… — Thomas Merton
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do… — James Dean
Every time the phone rang, my heart jumped. Was it Alexander? And when it wasn't him my heart would break into a million pieces. It… — Ellen Schreiber
There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears… — Cecily von Ziegesar
I love to do the things the censors won't pass. — Marilyn Monroe
Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know… — Tom Wolfe
The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's… — Ram Dass
By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another. — Ram Dass
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on… — Ken Kesey
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something. — Federico Fellini
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. — Dorothy Parker
When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do. — Rachel Naomi Remen
Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the… — Susan Sontag
I know that I have to move from speaking about Jesus to letting him speak within me, from thinking about Jesus to letting him think… — Henri Nouwen

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