All Quotes

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
‐‐ Ezra Pound

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
‐‐ Sigmund Freud

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
‐‐ Esa-Pekka Salonen

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
‐‐ Isaac D'Israeli

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius

The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care about the land and what they put in the food.
‐‐ Alice Waters

The act of exercising at 6 A.M. really helped me. It made me not dread the workout part of my day all day long. Also, when I went to have a tiny cheat, I would really think back to how hard I worked and thought, 'It is not worth going to boot camp an extra week over one peanut butter cup.'
‐‐ Marissa Jaret Winokur

The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.
‐‐ Emanuel Swedenborg

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
‐‐ Alan Coren

'The Act of Killing' helped catalyze this basic transformation in how the media talks about the past.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
‐‐ Gail Godwin

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if it's the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.
‐‐ Richard Ayoade

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.
‐‐ Adam Goldberg

The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.
‐‐ Tony Kushner

The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.
‐‐ John Ensign

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.
‐‐ Corliss Lamont

The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody's got to tell the truth, you know what I mean?
‐‐ Athol Fugard

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
‐‐ Nathalie Sarraute

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.
‐‐ Jodi Picoult

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
‐‐ Ralph Ellison

The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.
‐‐ Janette Turner Hospital

The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
‐‐ Laura Mennell

The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.
‐‐ Sam Worthington

The acting in 'Downton Abbey' has been consistently excellent across the board.
‐‐ James Frain

The acting is better when you know your material is being judged.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.
‐‐ Amber Benson

The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it would be.
‐‐ Melanie Lynskey

The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.
‐‐ Chaske Spencer

The acting part of me is not me. The music side is who I really am and what I want to talk about. It'll be hard for people to differentiate those different sides but I think it's possible. Once the music is out there, people will start to realize how serious I am about it rather than, 'Oh god, another actress making an album.'
‐‐ Lucy Hale

The acting served as an outlet for my emotions for some time because I was doing it under the guise of someone else. And that can only be therapeutic up to a point until you truly deal with it and can express it to someone directly. Acting was a helpful outlet for me as a child. In some ways, I can say it saved my life.
‐‐ Lindsay Wagner

The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock

The acting thing is the side benefit of becoming a little bit well known with my music.
‐‐ Tyler Hilton

The acting training in school was great, but it was mostly fun being young and in New York. Because my upbringing was so transient, New York ended up being my home. I've been living in New York longer than I have anywhere else in my life.
‐‐ Pedro Pascal

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.
‐‐ Julie London

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.
‐‐ Sharlto Copley

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
‐‐ E. Stanley Jones

The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.
‐‐ Jean-Claude Van Damme

The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.
‐‐ Joel Silver

The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.
‐‐ Eric Dane

The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.
‐‐ Jason Statham

The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.
‐‐ Lorenzo di Bonaventura

The action stuff is only good if you get the character stuff in there as well. Sometimes that get lost in amongst all the trying to make stuff blow up.
‐‐ Nicholas Hoult

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
‐‐ George W. Bush

The actions of hedge fund managers in exercising their fiduciary responsibilities to their investors is not the reason why Chrysler is in jeopardy.
‐‐ Scott Garrett

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
‐‐ James Joyce

The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness. They care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them.
‐‐ Donella Meadows