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He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture.

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Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.
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It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!
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By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?
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Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.
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I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.
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P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.
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For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.
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I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.
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I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.
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I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.
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My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.
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After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
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Queen Victoria
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Norman Mailer
I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?
Stacey Dash
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Bill Cosby
You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
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Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.
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Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
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Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
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I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.
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I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.
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In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists.
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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
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