Acts Quotes (page 2)

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• professions
• know
• professed

Acting is the loneliest profession I know. Joyce Carol Oates

• expectation
• act
• expectations

Act without expectation. Lao Tzu

• time
• believe
• free

Acts have consequences, Dixon, they must. These Louts believe all's right now,-- that they are free to get on with Lives that to them are no doubt important,-- with no Glimmer at all of the Debt they have taken on. That is what I smell'd,-- Lethe-Water. One of the things the newly-born forget, is how terrible its Taste, and Smell. In Time, these People are able to forget ev'rything. Be willing but to wait a little, and ye may gull them again and again, however ye wish,-- even unto their... Thomas Pynchon

• culture
• true
• parts

..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The “use” one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor. Bell Hooks

• act
• knowing
• takes

Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff. Ray Bradbury

• real
• magic
• much

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real. Laurence Olivier

• time
• universe
• law

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Immanuel Kant

• god
• tree
• may

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one. Aldo Leopold

• thoughts
• blossom
• manly

Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry James Allen

• game
• real
• exercise

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real. Sidney Poitier

• meaningful
• small
• bitter

Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. Dag Hammarskjold

• good
• learning
• feeling

Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine. Frankie Muniz

• expectation
• end
• ends

Act like you expect to get into the end zone. Christopher Morley

• happy love
• feeling happy
• love

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will. Dan Millman

• personal
• play
• character

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different. Ian Mckellen