I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.
I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.
A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.
I do not want to arrive at the end of life and then be asked what I made of it and have to answer: 'I acted. ' I want to be able to say: 'I loved and I was mystified. It was a joy sometimes, and I knew grief. And I would like to do it all again. '
I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.
Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways.
Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain.
I thought, acted, and thereupon found myself removed.
emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.
How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.
There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.
When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces. The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.
There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out. " "Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger.
Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
I've acted professionally since I was 16.
I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too much importance of stuff. But I do say to actors when I have taught in classes, or when I sometimes do a talk to a group. I'll say, "If I never acted again, the world wouldn't stop, nor would it stop if I didn't stop acting. That's how important it is. I know it [seems] important when you're young. But I say, "Lighten up. Don't take it all so seriously. " All the gurus and teachers will take your money and run.