I don’t control it at all. It’s all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like...

I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I...

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

Everything depends on what is being enacted. Enactment itself, since it is almost synonymous with ceremony, is, as we have seen, part of the very fabric of our human life. We do enact things. We...

I don’t act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don’t transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.

I authored the Universal National Service Act because I believe that everyone in America should contribute to the greater good of America.

I don’t know… I think I’m quite extreme… When I act, I have to immerse myself into the character… otherwise I can’t act… In my private life it’s the same… I think.

Whatever you can think about, you can have it realized, provided you can work out the suggestions of your imaginations.

The will to dream, the courage to act and the hope to win are the stuffs that make life meaningful! Create the life you wish to live and live it fully!

Begin when you have the strength. You have it now; therefore the best time to begin is now.

If we’re going to be smart, we can’t be stupid…!

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died

The human race is already social, and the smartphone has everything needed to enable them to act on their social needs.

I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year’s Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe...

After the comedy boom of the ’80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had...

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

Think like a man of action but act like a woman of thought.

There is immense power in an idea, because it unites people. It motivates them toward change. But the real power lies in their unity, in coming together – if enough can be rallied to a...

Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.

I’m aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.

Before a dream can mature and manifest itself as real, a lot of loaded efforts come into play! You are the pivot on which those loads must be turned!

Only the legs that run are those that really have muscles!

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I’ve worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

After years of immaturity, I finally have my act together. As far as acting, it’s very slapstick.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

I’m a 7 o’clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.

I’m not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

I can’t watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, ‘What am I doing as an actor? I can’t act!’

We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn’t going to work.

I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I’m very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did...

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

To perform you need practice, to practice you need passion.

Greatness is not a gift that one can give to another, but rather is a thief’s relic that we must take for ourselves.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

All that separated our love lives was one wall, and I was peeping through it. I was wearing Tom’s nametag, so why shouldn’t I act like him?

In most cases, verbal prayer alone does not change anything; when actions are branded with prayer, wonderful things happen. Actions alone do not make it as well; they lead to success when guided to labour...

Noise is the art of talking without walking

Just watching the drama stage does not define your successful performance; success lies in the display you do on that drama platform and how excellent you do it when it’s your turn to act!

When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don’t have a decent act out, the audience probably won’t be there in the numbers you want when the...

I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.

People get into debt head over heels because banks make it so easy to do so. Then the banks come along and act like these people who can’t or won’t pay their bills are the...

Thinking is an act of time, not a trick of mind.

You don’t tell a boy that he is a boy. You simply act like a man.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

Acting is not a mystery. There’s nothing that I know that other actors don’t know. We all act, we’re all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.