Quotes About Act

To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.

It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless automat of characters. And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls. It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else. I would have done anything to feel real again.

Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act.

The act of lust and the act of love are the same; it cannot be falsified like a sentiment.

The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or be possessed without humiliation.

Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can't be solved.

There is no act of faith more beautiful than the generosity of the very poor. -- Abdullah

No matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love.

Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness.

was something unchangeable: fixed for every one of us at birth, and as constant as the circuit of the stars. But I suddenly realised that life is stranger and more beautiful than that. The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love.

Every virtuous act has some dark secret in its heart, Khaderbhai once told me, and every risk we take contains a mystery that can't be solved.

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 in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.

I'm not worried about a 'blue wave,' I just think Republicans have to act like Republicans and govern like Republicans.

I think I approach everything as an actor first. I'd rather walk onto a set and just act and just worry about that.

Religious liberty is misunderstood. It simply means that the Founders said that everyone in America should have the freedom to practice and exercise their religion. Not to believe it but to exercise our beliefs - to act on our beliefs. It's not about believing privately in your head, privately in that building, or simply about freedom of worship.

There is something powerful about singing to God as an act of worship, but it is time to reframe our perspective and our language to genuinely encompass all of life as worship.

Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects everything in terms of how we live the gospel in our daily lives. It affects how we pray, how we study the scriptures, how we worship at church.

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

I won't share everything, both in my act or in interviews. Some of the people who become the most famous are the most self-revelatory, and I'm like, 'No, it's just not worth it to me.'

I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking Heads in Europe, and it was the best we'd ever had as an opening act.

I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.

People are very nice to me, and they've been nice as my career has gotten better and I've gotten more jobs. But the reality is that if I decided tomorrow that I didn't want to act anymore, it's not like people are going to be like, 'Please, come back!'

An actor has to be a complete package, he should have a toned body, know how to dance, act and do everything possible under the sun.