"We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act."

Act,

12

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Act quotes

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Act, Heaven

"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."

bell hooks, American Critic

Act, Ego, Past, Self

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

Act, Books, Creation

"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

William James, American Philosopher

Act, Difference, Will

"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

Act, Mind, Reflection, Thinking

"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Act, Talk

"In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor."

Henry Miller, American Author

Act, Actor, Beginning, Man

"A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators."

Augustine Birrell, English Author

Act, Creation

"I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act."

Paul Muni, American Actor

Act, Actors, Want

"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair."

Angelina Grimke, American Activist

Act, Denial, Despair, Duty

Explore more quotes by Laurence Olivier

"I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture."

Culture

"I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman."

God

"We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act."

Act

"I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book."

Actor

"My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself."

Film

"We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings."

Time

"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult."

Acting

"I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act."

God

"I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself."

Work

"Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word."

Love