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I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally. — T. J. Miller

I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up. — Sean Combs

When what we say doesn't match how we act, we are lying to ourselves. — Cortney S. Warren

The last person to teach me how to act was my A-level Theatre Studies teacher at school, which I literally still draw on. Got an A! — Joe Thomas

When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him. — James Boswell

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really. — Stanley Tucci

That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37. — John Mahoney

I mention this because there is the question of how children become aware of what the world is, and how to act in it. How, — Elizabeth Strout

How soon will someone speak the word the resentful millions will understand: the word to be, to act, to live? — Richard Wright

It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act now. — Greg Nickels

I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love. — Pearl Cleage

We cannot help how we feel, but we can choose whether or not to act upon those feelings. — Sophie Hannah

What do we care about? What do we believe? Who do we want to be? How do we want our company to act and make decisions? — Eric Schmidt

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period. — Charley Pride

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few. — W. Somerset Maugham

How easy it was to give out morsels of wise counsel, and yet how hard to act on them. — Geraldine Brooks

The noble feel the same strong feelings as the rest of us; the difference is in how they choose to act. — Lauren Groff

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act? — Robin Wright

College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act. — Lusia Strus

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it. — Judi Dench

I believed early and still believe that everybody who can act can do it already, just they don't know how and don't want to talk about it. — Mike Nichols

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy. — Nicole Sullivan

All people, whatever they are doing, no matter how crazy or irrational it seems ... it is how they need to act - from their perspective. — Nikki Sex

I feel as though I'm playing a part like those mummers who travel the roads, only I don't know the words properly, or how I'm supposed to act. — Mark Lawrence

People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public. — Bryan White

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do. — Jack Nicholson

It's the story of the City of Women; of how it came to be, how it flourished, and how it was destroyed by a reckless and irrevocable act of mercy. — Louise Carey

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men? ... Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act. — David Henry Hwang

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous. — Katharine Hepburn

You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure. — John F. Kerry

No, its not, because you can see into the future if you have basic understanding of how people are likely to act. — John Green

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.'
Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians. — Orson Scott Card

She was his beacon to what others called decency, not because she told him how to act but because she made him want to try. — Thea Harrison

I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting. — Paul Henreid

What we get, and all we ever get, from the outside is information; how we choose to act on this information is up to us. — William Glasser

Men act like men at home when they realize they will be held responsible for how well they represented God to their family. — James MacDonald

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings. — Marion Cotillard

And that was how the Selection did its first act in my favor: if I had her here, at least I had the chance to try. — Kiera Cass

It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural. — Craig Clevenger

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost? — Jean De La Bruyere

You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence. — Julien Smith

I may act like I don't care anymore, but if only you could see me inside, you'll know how much I wanted to be with you. — Jayson Engay

I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing. — Ernest Cline

No matter how painful it might be ... I'll do everything in my might! So please, you too, act according to what you believe in! — CLAMP

No matter how good you act to be tough, your emotions will flow without your control... — Ankit Rawat

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money. — Alexis Arguello

But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it. — Lydia Davis

When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it. — Eve Best

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

No matter how tough you've been trying to act lately, I know that deep down you have a heart that bleeds in the presence of injustice. — Colleen Hoover

She needed a break from worrying about what to say and how to act every second of the day. — Cindi Madsen

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play. — Ian McKellen

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I don't know how to act — Juvenile

Until you truly learn how to act well, you shall always act only for your actions to teach you how to act well — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Who you are, how you act and present yourself to others and your deep inner-truths are calling fortune or misfortune into your life right now. — Bryant McGill

How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice? — Michael Herr

We're having a celebration, so all sorts of things have been said which are not true,' I said. 'That's how to act at a party. — Kurt Vonnegut

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such. — Dane Cook

Someone isn't your family simply because they contributed to your DNA. Family is how you act. — Lauren Dane

The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else. — Alexander Mackendrick

Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present. — John Kuypers

We are all just actors trying to control and manage our public image, we act based on how others might see us. — Erving Goffman

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble. — Robert J. Shiller

My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh? — Joan Baez

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward. — Angela Lansbury

They told me to just "act like myself." When I said, "How do I do that?" they said to just have fun with it, but I'm not sure what they meant. — Steve Martin

How can you expect to be rescued if you don't put first things first and act proper? — William Golding

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. — Jimmy Breslin

No matter how offensive she's been to me, she continues to act as if she has some sort of God-given right to keep coming back for more favors. — Diane Capri

If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance. — R.C. Sproul

I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition. — Channing Tatum

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes. — Condola Rashad

We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them. — Elizabeth George

When we look at films, we usually see only the action. Yet it is the decision to act that helps us understand how the character's mind works. — Linda Seger

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it. — Lillian Hellman

And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded — Jodi Picoult

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act. — Juliana Hatfield

He was a throwback to a lady's old romantic notion of how a man should act. [Giovanni Tempesta] — Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco

Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future. — Immortal Technique

I tried to decide just how I should respond to them. Whether I should act like the teacher that I was, or like the nigger that I was supposed to be. — Ernest J. Gaines

Maybe I felt something because I'm always looking for feelings. Without them, I don't know how to act. — Erin Bowman

How does he do that? No matter how stupid I act or feel, all he has to do is smile that perfect smile and it erases everything. — Jennifer Murgia

When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play. — Mary E. Pearson

She'd like to model or maybe act or star in a magazine. Before she signs any big contracts, she better learn how to read. — Thomas Dolby

Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly. — Jill Telford

Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act? — Victoria Jackson

The Spending Control Act. It would recreate President Reagan's grace commission to have a bipartisan commission on how we reduce spending. — Mark Kirk

Strangers can be consequential when you want to practice an atrophied or unexplored facet of you, as they don't know how you usually act. — Kare Anderson

I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess." — Roseanne Barr

However, if you want to know how people would like to be treated, it's more helpful to look at how they themselves act than what they say. — Gretchen Rubin

The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar — Agona Apell

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies. — Claudia Gray

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living. — Fernando Pessoa

Don't let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life. — Gary Keller

This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act. — Erika Johansen

America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself. — Paul Mooney

I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it. — Camren Bicondova

I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas. — Tobias Lindholm

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act. — Stephen King

Nowadays, you gots ta walk the street and watch your back,
Cause brothers with the gats don't be knowin' how to act. — Shyheim