Acting Quotes - Page 39

• Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

  Tod Machover

  Art, People, Should

  Scientific American Interview, www.scientificamerican.com.

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• The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

  Charles A. Murray

  Children, Average, Law

  "The Age of Educational Romanticism". The New Criterion, May 01, 2008.

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• The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Advantage, Interest, Honestly

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• There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours.

  Fred Thompson

  Government, Long, Hours

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• My first big acting performance was in the Marilyn Monroe biography piece, and it required frontal nudity. I talked to Mira Sorvino, my co-star, about how nervous I was because I didn't know how my mom would react. She said, 'Can I be completely honest with you? I've seen your mom in interviews, and she seems pretty screwed up. I don't think there's much you could do to shock a broad like that.' And from that moment on it was big nipples to the wind!

  Ashley Judd

  Mom, Stars, Thinking

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• Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Believe, Men, Imagine

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• I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions. The English ought to give up their notorious violations of the unities, and all their massacres, racks, dead bodies, and mangled carcasses, which they so frequently exhibit upon their stage. The French should engage to have more action, and less declamation, and not to cram and to crowd things together to almost a degree of impossibility from a too scrupulous adherence to the unities.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving Up, Party, Unity

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.248, Oxford Paperbacks

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• If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Blood, Envy, Causes

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• This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God’s call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father’s carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.

  R. C. Sproul

  Religious, Jesus, Father

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• The trouble with plays these days is that they're too easy to understand.

  Robert Alan Aurthur

  Play, Trouble, Easy

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• This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Knowing, Receiving, Firsts

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1871). “Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London”, p.28

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• It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Death, Real, Loss

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• Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Virtue, Habit

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1988). “Leibniz: Political Writings”, p.31, Cambridge University Press

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• What's wrong with lust? You fancy your neighbor's husband so what are you supposed to do? Poke your eyes out so that you can't see him anymore? Acting on it is maybe a sin ... but my God, just lusting after someone? Is that so bad?

  Emma Goldman

  Husband, Eye, Lust

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• I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere, it's game-playing. It's play-acting at work.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Play, Organization, Games

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• We must be unafraid to be utterly honest, to honor our gut feelings, and to say and do the unpopular when necessary. We have to give up our addiction to other people's opinions and surrender to the freedom of acting with strength and courage.

  Suzanne Falter-Barns

  Giving Up, Addiction, People

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• All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Ideas, May, Good Ideas

  "Farewell to Reason". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1987.

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• ... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those around them, employ the chief of them for mere selfish indulgences; thus inflicting as much mischief on themselves, as results to others from their culpable neglect. A great portion of the rich seem to be acting on the principle, that the more God bestows on them, the less are they under obligation to practise any self-denial, in fulfilling his benevolent plan of raising our race to intelligence and holiness.

  Catharine Beecher

  Selfish, Responsibility, Race

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• In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Real, Character

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.79, Bantam Classics

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• Acting is not just doing! It is who you are being and what you are experiencing that causes you to do - to need to act. Then doing turns arounds and changes your being. But doing without being is lifeless.

  Jason Bennett

  Needs, Causes, Lifeless

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• Culture is an abstraction; it cannot actually be seen or touched.... We see people acting in agreed-upon ways in the face of similar situations...we notice people moving their bodies in certain ways - making choices in their lives about where to live, what to eat, how to learn, how to work and love - in response to similar events and experiences, and say: "oh, these people belong to the same culture".

  H. Ned Seelye

  Moving, People, Choices

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• It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves.

  Robert Owen

  Ignorance, Men, Hands

  Robert Owen (1837). “First American from the third London edition”, p.76

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• We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.

  Sybil Thorndike

  Long, People, Giving

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• We need to start acting like a team, focus on winning and not worry about all of the other stuff that goes on. We lost our focus last year. We worried about who was being hired, who was being fired. That's got to change. We don't need any more finger pointing. We need to act like a team.

  Albert Belle

  Team, Winning, Years

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• I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.

  Don Ameche

  Growing Up, College, Law

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