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When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.

I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.