Act quotes

Inspiring quotes to encourage action and empower you to make a difference. Explore the category of Act for wisdom and motivation to step up and change the world.

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.

- Pat Buckley

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

- Dale Carnegie

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.

- Corbin Bernsen

I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.

- Ethan Suplee

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

- Frank Serpico

There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

- Grace Napolitano

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.

- Jennifer Granholm

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

- Aesop

Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.

- Bradley Whitford

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.

- Peter Mandelson

His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.

- Lawrence Welk

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

- Burt Reynolds

Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act.

- Piper Perabo

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

- Russell Banks

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.

- Raymond Queneau

Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.

- Christopher Dawson

I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.

- John Warner

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

- Charles Darwin

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

- John Goodman

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

- Bill Nelson

Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.

- Julia Barr

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

- Blaise Pascal

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

- Brendan Fraser

We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

- Joshua A. Norton

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

- Jerzy Kosinski

I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.

- Bebe Neuwirth

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.

- Bryce Dallas Howard

You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.

- Irene Dunne

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

- Frank Auerbach