- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Act Quotes
On acting, performing, and the difference between talk and action.
This page gathers quotes that use the word act in different senses - the nervous energy of live performance, and the question of who should be trusted to act as an advocate in a courtroom. Readers who like these might also enjoy Just quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Having it all' is such an intimidating concept. Just when you think you have all those plates spinning perfectly... something changes. It is a constant balancing act.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was seven, I saw 'Sister Act 2,' and I fell in love with the performing aspect of music.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Richard Nixon, famously, conducted his foreign policy according to the 'madman theory': he tried to convince enemy leaders that he was irrational and volatile in an attempt to intimidate them. But this was a potentially useful approach to foreign policy only because it was an act.
- Mimic
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- Nov 07, 2020
We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
- Flag
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I want to act, I'm gonna act. And if I consider myself an actor, that's all that matters to me.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020