I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn’t me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.

To find yourself different than others, you must believe,behave and act differently.

Most of what you do to fulfill God’s purposes will require acts of faith.

My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!

Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control.

It never ceases to amaze me how much people talk about relationships, think about them, read about them, ask about them – even get in them without a clue how to move them forward.

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it — in our own small ways — by every choice...

To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don’t listen to their words, but watch their actions.

Despite our human intelligence, we are very much like our friends in the wild; the world we live in is a survival of the fittest. But to this I say, let the fittest survive! Survival...

I always hated when the studios just kind of said that anybody can act. You look at people like Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda – and I’m just talking about the male actors – there aren’t...

You can’t act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

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...

My inners are not organs. They’re actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up like the movie ‘Hugo,’ and then just say, ‘Act,’ you know?

When you see something wrong and fail to do anything about it, even in the smallest effort, you accept the wrong.

You need peace to ground you and courage to act from the centre of yourself.

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

During one performance of ‘Les Miserables,’ the barricade didn’t leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange… doing the...

you will have a ready script – and asked by it to act directly.writer is the moment,the time.

Its not the falling down that counts but what you do next that counts the most. Don’t spend your time on your knees if you have fallen, instead get up and dust your knees clean...

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.

Punctuality is not just limited to arriving at a place at right time, it is also about taking actions at right time.

What we don’t often realize is that the rebirth and collapse of grand things do not begin with grand things at all, like the things we see, but with the small, like the things we...

I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

If my name were Oscar, I’d want to be an actor and win my namesake award and take back my identity.

When all your efforts are channeled through a common canal for progress, no condition can alter a single sentence of your success story! Dream it; Drive it; Be in focus!

You don’t command your plate to provide you with food and it does. And you don’t have to get bored if it doesn’t. Whatever has to drop into the plate must pass through your head!

The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.

Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven’t wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give...

I wasn’t the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

How the visual world appears is important to me. I’m always aware of the light. I’m always aware of what I would call the ‘deep composition.’ Photography in the field is a process of creation,...

if you begin, you win.

I would love to act. I probably won’t make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I’d love to act.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that’s a lie. The less I have to hide, the less...

I don’t possess a lot of self-confidence. I’m an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

You have gone through enough theory, now it’s time to take actions.

Since the enactment of the War Powers Act in 1973, which I supported then and support now, Congress has been reluctant to assert its authority when presidents decide to send American soldiers into harm’s way.

Maybe the question isn’t whether God exists, but how we act. If we all act like God doesn’t exist, then for all intents and purposes God doesn’t. But if we act like God does exist,...

Money is not the priority. A step to dream big and planning of your dreams is a premier action that will see you through a start of your journey to success.

When you are fired because of laziness, dare to fire back with the spirit of enthusiasm. Rise up at the same time and at the same place that you have fallen. You can’t give up!

Be inspired, raising the bar of excellence in your life every day. Act better than before; grow higher than usual; think faster than normal.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.

We’ve suffered a ‘Ponzification’ of the economy in recent years, as bubbles have built up and then burst, and each time we act as though it’s the first time.

The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create.