I remember my first standup act when I was seventeen; I did a really lame song about being flat chested. I was doing it in New York, and I remember Kevin Brennan, the guy I lost my virginity to, was like "That song doesn't make sense, you have tits. "
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
The hard part about SNL is, there's no real communication when you get there. It's not like people are mean to you, they just act like you're not there.
Always act the part — and you can become whatever you wish to become!
For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.
Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. . . The legislation couldn't reform it. Lawmakers won't repeal it. I won't stand for it. I had to act. . . I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates.
The next step may be fatal to us. Let us then act like wise men, calmly look around us and consider what is best to be done. . . Let associations and combinations be everywhere set up to consult and recover our just rights.
If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.
We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do.
We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and Republicans alike. . . . We voted for the people who voted for it, and then voted for the people who reauthorized it, then voted for the people who re-re-authorize d it.
Live every act fully, as if it were your last.
Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.
To think is an act. To feel is a fact.
You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.
To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary.
There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating with the director is through intimacy. It doesn't necessarily have to do with any physical act; it has more to do with achieving a closeness that they find very valuable.
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about it. I'm not going to put on the sweet relative act. I know what you've done to Jim and how you've made him miserable all his life. I'm going to protect him against you. I'll put you in your place. I'm Mrs. Taggart. I'm the woman in this family now. ' 'That's quite all right,' said Dagny. 'I'm the man.