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I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else. -- Javier Bardem
It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act? -- Robin Wright
You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone. -- Dave Davies
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. -- Bryan White
Just live life. That's the best way to learn how to act. Just live. -- Rory Culkin
Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act. -- Dennis Quaid
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. -- Arna Bontemps
My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act. -- Juliana Hatfield
I don't spend my hours worrying how to slip a social message into my act. -- Bill Cosby
College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act. -- Lusia Strus
I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas. -- Tobias Lindholm
I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do. -- Jack Nicholson
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it. -- Lillian Hellman
I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings. -- Marion Cotillard
That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37. -- John Mahoney
If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy. -- Nicole Sullivan
What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period. -- Charley Pride
I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting. -- Paul Henreid
To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing. -- Marshall Allman
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
How do rich people think and act? -- T. Harv Eker
People who know how to act are never preachers. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nebraska sets the standard for how fans should act. -- Beano Cook
How you think matters. How you act matters more. -- James Woosley
If you desire to see, learn how to act. -- Heinz von Foerster
My Vegas act is how I make my money. -- Rita Rudner
I live or die by how well I act. -- Tobias Menzies
How much damage will have been done before we act? -- John McCain
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair. -- Lawrence Welk
I don't know how people act. I've never understood that. -- Quentin Crisp
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -- Aesop
Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath. -- John Updike
I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow. -- Katharine Hepburn
Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world. -- Mira Nair
It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural. -- Craig Clevenger
How you think about your opportunities determines how you will act on them. -- T. D. Jakes
Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small. -- Mother Teresa
What people tell you and how they act is very, very different sometimes. -- Kevin Systrom
Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly. -- Jill Telford
There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political -- Renata Adler
How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act. -- Gustave Flaubert
How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time. -- Morgan Freeman
Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react. -- Maya Banks
No matter how you choose to act, that is the person you will become. -- John Patrick Hickey
Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. -- Mitch Albom
I believe how I live my life every day is my act of worship. -- Jack Layton
How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it! -- Hosea Ballou
We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly. xo -- Jill Telford
What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world. -- Marcella Hazan
How we [Americans] move [on climate] will determine the international direction. To lead, we must act. -- Eileen Claussen
Uh I like it like that She working that back, I don't know how to act -- Juvenile
I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do -- Jack Nicholson
P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel. -- Johnny Kelly
Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave. -- Carrie Fisher
How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war? -- Peter Watts
Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations. -- Bentley Little
How can you expect to be rescued if you don't put first things first and act proper? -- William Golding
I have always had this outrage at being told what to, how to act, whom to love. -- Martina Navratilova
We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace? -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act. -- Stephen King
People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are. -- Mae Whitman
People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather than how famous you are. -- Mae Whitman
How you think determines how you act. How you act in turn determines how others react to you. -- David J. Schwartz
A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life. -- Roy Bennett
What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality. -- Andy Kaufman
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. -- David Joseph Schwartz
The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how. -- Margaret Atwood
Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows. -- Guy Finley
First of all, my wife writes half my act. I don't know how I could "steal" from my wife. -- Jay Mohr
[I] take inspiration from kids. ... They're very honest in how they act and how they are in the world. -- Daniel Radcliffe
An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians. -- Orson Scott Card
No matter how well-meaning your intention, doing too much is not always an act of love but of sabotage. -- Judith Orloff
How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness! -- Benjamin Haydon
If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act. -- Les Paul
We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them. -- Elizabeth George
We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The Universal Consciousness's feeling is unqualified love for all of its creatures,no matter how foolish and desperate they act. -- David V. Gaggin
God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. -- Richard J. Foster
Much of your success in life is determined by how you choose to act in spite of how you feel. -- Andy Andrews
Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. -- Gordon Parks
If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart. -- Friedrich Schiller
I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with. -- Andy Rooney
You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure. -- John F. Kerry
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. -- Jimmy Breslin
Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. -- Jimmy Breslin
I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money. -- Joseph P. Kennedy
So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really. -- Stanley Tucci
I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money. -- Joseph P. Kennedy
I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV. -- Erin Cahill
I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools. -- Pope Benedict XVI
It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living. -- Fernando Pessoa
How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice? -- Michael Herr
I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such. -- Dane Cook
Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity. -- Simon Sinek
Nowadays, you gots ta walk the street and watch your back, Cause brothers with the gats don't be knowin' how to act. -- Shyheim
As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas. -- Max McKeown
Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning they act on objects no matter how far they are separated from each other. -- Francois Englert
You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence. -- Julien Smith
You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence -- Julian Smith
All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say? -- Steven Saylor
I don't know how to put on an act; I always show myself for what I am, in whatever mood I'm in. -- Indira Gandhi
How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry? -- Sebastian Junger
Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act? -- Victoria Jackson
There's no doubt that [tax cuts] act as a stimulus. How could they not, in a sense? You're giving cash back to households. -- Judy Woodruff
My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh? -- Joan Baez
When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play. -- Mary E. Pearson
I'm not comfortable telling my kids how they should be or how they should think or how they should act or anything else. -- Mark Martin
Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act. -- David Henry Hwang
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition. -- Channing Tatum
America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself. -- Paul Mooney
How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play. -- Ian Mckellen
Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies. -- Claudia Gray
To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest. -- Katharine Hepburn
Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act -- Gil Fronsdal
I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up. -- Puff Daddy
Walking around sometimes, I would love to just be able to watch people, see how they act. Sometimes I would love to be invisible. -- Derek Jeter
How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children? -- Thomas Sowell

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