Acting Quotes

4873 Acting quotes by 2890 unique authors

I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting. — Bret Easton Ellis
Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways. — Marian Wright Edelman
The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for… — Hannah Arendt
Jamie: You're acting like a crazy person, what's going on? Landon: Right now, you're straddling the state line. Jamie: OK... Landon: You're in two places… — Nicholas Sparks
And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or maybe just plain too ugly… — Audrey Hepburn
...In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one… — Desmond Morris
John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it! — Louisa May Alcott
When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair;… — Leo Tolstoy
In the past, when people criticized me for asking unexpected questions, I felt ashamed. Now I realize that normal people are acting in a superficial… — John Elder Robison
People shouldn't be embarrassed just because they get caught acting a little silly. — Charles M. Schulz
At the same time believers realise that the defects they see in one another are tests from Allah. For this reason they don't call attention… — Harun Yahya
I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous… — William Shakespeare
If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done. — Thomas Jefferson
There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in… — Douglas Adams
Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know… — Albert Camus
But we all must be true to our own nature. Acting as anyone other than yourself merely brings you pain and makes you appear ashamed… — Gena Showalter
Though you see nothing, he is acting. — Max Lucado
And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog. — Connie Brockway
I tried to talk to Annabeth, but she was acting like I'd just punched her grandmother. — Rick Riordan
You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been… — Ayn Rand
Harry Potter has actually been a very intimate phenomenon, the story of small groups of people acting in ways they shouldn't, doing things they usually… — Melissa Anelli
When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from… — Maya Angelou
I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century… — Douglas Adams

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