"Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage."

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"Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage."

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"Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all."

Jim Elliot, American Clergyman

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"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."

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"The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before."

Carol P. Christ, American Educator

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra."

Pia Zadora, American Actress

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

Ralph Fiennes, British Actor

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"One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased."

Hermann Ebbinghaus, German Psychologist

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"What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?"

Andrei Platonov, Russian Writer

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"The simple act of caring is heroic."

Edward Albert, American Actor

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"Thank God for the theater."

God

"I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador."

America

"There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can."

People

"We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation."

Life

"It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man."

Experience

"I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role."

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"Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace."

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"I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself."

Reality

"Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself."

Business

"I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment."

Wife