2472 Act Quotes for You to Enjoy

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama. Jean-Claude Van Damme

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One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. Jean Cocteau

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing. Jean Toomer

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I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing. When is it that the voice becomes an elixir? It's during flirting, courtship, sex. Music's all that. Jeff Buckley

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In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge. I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing. Jeff Buckley

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Less tension in the Middle East is always a positive, and any drop in gas prices will essentially act as a tax break for consumers going into the holiday shopping season. Jeff Duncan

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I have sympathy for the people in Syria, and I do think there should be a worldwide response, but we should act cautiously. Jeff Duncan

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The magic in performing as an entertaining ventriloquist happens when the characters come to life and the interaction between the separate personalities on stage becomes 'real.' Then don't forget that the act has to be funny, and to me, being funny and entertaining any given audience is more important than anything. Jeff Dunham

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I teach a Bible study for homeless guys in downtown Atlanta every week. Been doing it for years. That's the guys I'd rather go talk to. I'd rather take my act outside the church. Jeff Foxworthy

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The conventional wisdom is that authors get only one chance in this world. If your first novel doesn't sell, publishers and bookstores lose interest, and your career stalls, barring an act of God or Oprah. Jeff Giles

If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about. Jeff Goldblum

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If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power? Jeff Greenfield

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I feel, as an adult, I'm very similar to how I was as a pre-teen. Maybe it's a case of arrested development, but I feel like it's easy to slip back into those shoes, and I feel like if we were all magically transported back to our middle school years, we'd all act like we did in middle school. Jeff Kinney

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Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place. Jeff Koons

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Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act. Jeff Koons

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All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief. Jeff Miller

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The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching. Jeffrey Eugenides

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Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge. Jeffrey Kluger

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My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it! Jeffrey Tambor

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Usually when you act, you know where you're going, where the point is. Jeffrey Tambor

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