I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.
Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.
I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.
Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.
I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.