Initiative Quote by Hannah Arendt

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with…

— Emile M. Cioran

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

— T. S. Eliot

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is…

— Adam Driver

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

— Anonymous

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

— Shawnee Smith

Acting is a symbiotic process, it is an amalgamation of many many things put together and when there is a call for action, that's…

— Kay Kay Menon

Putting your Act into Motion, creates Action ~ Big Al Connolly

— Big Al Connolly

By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

— Isabelle Huppert

Our actions are what sets things in motion, but we have to live with that.

— Elena Gilbert

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

— George Eliot