All Quotes

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.
‐‐ Alcee Hastings

The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and retain the most distinguished women in the world is empty.
‐‐ Margaret Geller

The actions taken by central banks and other authorities to stabilize a panic in the short run can work against stability in the long run if investors and firms infer from those actions that they will never bear the full consequences of excessive risk-taking.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.
‐‐ John O. Brennan

The actions we took in the aftermath of 9/11 were harsh but necessary and effective. These steps were fully sanctioned and carefully followed. The detention and interrogation of top terrorists like Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Sheikh Muhammed and Abu Faraj al-Libbi yielded breakthroughs which have kept this country safe.
‐‐ Jose Rodriguez

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.
‐‐ Francis W. Newman

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
‐‐ Ross Perot

The activists play the balance sheet by selling a division to buy back stock and leveraging the balance sheet and buying back more stock.
‐‐ Nelson Peltz

The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.
‐‐ Jim Bunning

The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department of Defense or the CIA.
‐‐ Annie Jacobsen

The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

The actor already comes with emotions to the scene: fear, the fear of being in front of the camera. It is this fear that spurs the emotion of the scene. I too am afraid; I don't know exactly what I am searching for. On the set, we are all participating in this fear together.
‐‐ Bruno Dumont

The actor always must be in the scene, not above the scene. To communicate any larger ideas is my problem; it's how the narrative is constructed and directed that hopefully does it.
‐‐ James Gray

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
‐‐ Al Pacino

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.
‐‐ Stella Adler

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.
‐‐ Lee Strasberg

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
‐‐ Bela Lugosi

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.
‐‐ Cyril Cusack

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.
‐‐ Stella Adler

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.
‐‐ Matthew Macfadyen

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.
‐‐ Roland Joffe

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
‐‐ Sarah Bernhardt

The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.
‐‐ Nick Mancuso

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
‐‐ Harrison Ford

The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
‐‐ Laurence Olivier

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.
‐‐ Alla Nazimova

The actor that taught me the most was Bernie Mac. I did my first big budget studio film with he and Angela Bassett, 'Mr. 3000' for Disney. Bernie taught me by example what creates success is humility and hard work.
‐‐ Brian J. White

The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.
‐‐ Peter Bogdanovich

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
‐‐ Alexander Payne

The actors I admire are character actors.
‐‐ Chaske Spencer

The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.
‐‐ Lucy Punch

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
‐‐ Max Irons

The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.
‐‐ Fran Kranz

The actors I would like to work with are Julia Roberts, just because I've admired her work for a long time, well Brad Pitt. I think you know my reasons.
‐‐ Christina Milian

The actors nowadays, both young men and young ladies, don't always wear their period clothes as well as they might. They tend to stomp around a bit in them.
‐‐ Julie Harris

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
‐‐ Abel Ferrara

The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different roles and into different media.
‐‐ Gugu Mbatha-Raw

The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
‐‐ Victoria Abril

The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
‐‐ Bar Paly

The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
‐‐ Alfred de Vigny

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.
‐‐ Michael Shermer

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.
‐‐ Peter Straub

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
‐‐ David Hare

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.
‐‐ Brooke Langton

The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management.
‐‐ Tom Felton

The actual game is only part of the Senior Bowl experience - the practices are equally important.
‐‐ D'Brickashaw Ferguson

The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
‐‐ Amos Oz

The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.
‐‐ Taylor Lautner