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The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
I'm obsessed with all things Bengali, man. I love fish, my maid is Bengali, I acted in Bengali and Bangladeshi films.
I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'
I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.
My parents thought if they put me in drama classes, I might come out of my shell. It worked, and I've acted ever since.
I speak Dutch, German, French, and English and have acted in all of those languages, but I love the American experience.
I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.
Jess Ennis, Chrissie Ohuruogu, Vicky Pendleton and Laura Trott, to name a few, have acted as female role models in England.
A lot of the characters I play on Japanese shows are actually acted in Japan by women. I don't know what that says about me.
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.
I have acted in all four film industries in the South. I speak all four languages because of my upbringing in various cities.
I haven't acted in 10 years. I always talk about being an actor, and yet I've been focusing on making movies for a long time.
I have acted in over 50 films and 15 daily soaps, but the thrill I feel while performing for my home audience is unparalleled.
I had ADD as a kid and often acted as the class clown. My teachers used to tell my mom, 'Raphael thinks he's a real comedian.'
I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.
I was singing before I acted, but I was also attracted to drama, and, y'know, I got successful at that, which isn't a bad thing.
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.
Houston is a dynamic, international city shaped by leaders who dreamed big and acted with an eye firmly focused on the long term.
Any director who's also acted understands the fact that every person has a different process and has to be approached differently.
I just saw 'Men, Women & Children' last night, and it's a devastating movie in a lot of ways, but it's so well done, so well acted.
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.
I really loved when I started doing '70s Show,' though I had never acted before, so it was a great training ground being on a sitcom.
I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.
The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.
Most clubs say they will not tolerate any forms of discrimination - that cannot be something that is just said. It needs to be acted on.
My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
I really strongly believe that we should be judged not by how we acted when we were ignorant, but how we responded when we were informed.
We all want to believe that our country's forces have, at all times and even under extreme pressure, acted with both humanity and honour.
Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.
The first time I ever acted was in 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and my first line was, 'I didn't know Shakespeare had a sister.'
I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.
I acted with Albie at Stratford-on-Avon in the 1959 season. We in the acting company tended to hang out at the pub known as the Dirty Duck.
I've always acted; in fact, I can't remember a time when I was not. When I was little, cinema was a game, then my father's job and now mine.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
In 1997, my father appointed me CEO but acted as player-coach, keeping busy on long-term clients such as KFC and international travel brands.
Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn't that suck?
The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.
It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.
I probably learned most at MIT by teaching and working with Peter Diamond, who acted like a big brother to me during my time in the department.
I have always acted in films where women have an equal, if not bigger, role than mine. Don't the kind of films you do reflect your personality?
For 'Rock On,' we not only acted as rock musicians; we also went into the studio to record songs and jammed live to get the concert feel right.
I was the music director at a dinner theater called the 'Pheasant Run Theater' in the suburbs of Chicago, and that was my side gig while I acted.
In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair.
I acted in a couple friends's short films and thought I was gonna be really good and mysterious and sexy. And I was just terrible and self-aware.