Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.
Mira Sorvino
Related Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always... DEAN INGE I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions. DEVON SAWA I really don't storyboard unless it's an action sequence of some kind, but I plan carefully. JOHN LEE HANCOCK Live-action is more fun for me, because you're acting with people. When you do voice-acting, man... BEN SCHWARTZ Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. ST. JEROME When you take up an action of this kind, you do it with conviction. GEORGE SPEIGHT Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animatio... RALPH BAKSHI You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between... ROBERT WISE Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some... JAMES ALTUCHER When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So ... TOM PETTY Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some... BARTLETT SHER I do think that with any kind of infidelity, on some level - unless you're dealing with a sociop... JESSICA CAPSHAW I would say that my favorite action film is the 'Die Hard's. They're kind of perfect, I ... MICHAEL ANGARANO When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of... ORLANDO BLOOM Is our life not exciting enough? Or do the lot of you just have some kind of death wish? JULIE KAGAWA Maybe the losing government is doing some kind of engineering. AMIEN RAIS I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning. ADAM DRIVER If you want to know how a person is, just put some kind of hard choice in front of him. VIKRANT PARSAI Some people see acting as a kind of stroll on the beach, and some people see it as a kind of skydive... AMANDA HALE My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you ha... RACHEL BILSON Usually there's some kind of clue, whether it's a rhythmic foundation or sometimes its very abstract... DAVID SANBORN The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thin... CONOR OBERST When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you're hoping the ... RAZA JAFFREY We've got to make some kind of forecast, ... While it may be a little risky in some respects from an... DICK CHENEY When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of struc... ALEXANDER SKARSGARD When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultura... CATIE CURTIS Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviol... MALCOLM X There's always some kind of hidden logic. CHRISTIAN LACROIX That kind of grief is different to deal with because it's not like when you know someone is sick. Wh... LIZ BROWN Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cove... MORLEY SAFER I try to stay away from stuff that's just action, action, action, action, action, and you kind o... MARK DACASCOS A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Oth... ALAN FURST All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind ... ARISTOTLE You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact... HARRY DEAN STANTON A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is dese... THOMAS MALTHUS If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research ab... WARREN ELLIS I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach. JOHN W. GARDNER The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had th... HAYDEN PANETTIERE Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and nat... ANDREW YOUNG I think I'm kind of attracted to the material more than the medium. I'm not opposed to doing... DAN FUTTERMAN To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed int... SCOTT REED [They] say that they're going to give their child a mutual fund contribution or some kind of gift th... BRITT BEEMER Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipi... THOMAS CARLYLE I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because th... JILL SCOTT I'm proud of 'The Hidden.' I feel like we took a B-movie and kind of turned it into an A... KYLE MACLACHLAN On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them hav... CONOR OBERST I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other th... JACKIE KENNEDY It's always kind of fun to play a course where you can shoot some low numbers. HEATH SLOCUM Some stuff which I do aren't some kind a cheats or this kind a of stuff it's about thinking and it's... DEYTH BANGER False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put to... SAM HARRIS I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium... ALAN RICKMAN I'm kind of a tomboy, so I've always had a soft spot for action movies. I would love to do o... CASSI THOMSON Because if you give everything away then you become a kind of non-person. JARVIS COCKER There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usu... RIP TORN High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, ... GIANCARLO STANTON The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Where... WILLIAM HURT I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting t... SCOTT AUKERMAN An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let... DONNIE YEN Anytime you share life stories with other people, you know, you are acknowledging their humanity and... JILL SCOTT Morally, the show challenges itself consistently. To be honest, sometimes I don't know where the mor... JULIAN MCMAHON Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there'... ISABELLA ROSSELLINI At this point, we don't know any kind of diagnosis. I'm not going to speculate or give you any kind ... BILL COWHER and I suppose the most you can hope for is to make some kind of difference, but what kind of differe... JACK NICHOLSON If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because... JUSTIN CRONIN For me, you have to have some kind of modesty. ALEK WEK Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribbl... SUSANNA KAYSEN Do you ever think of me? or have you put up some kind of boundary to prevent me from ever crossing y... AERIAL NICOLE MITCHELL Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form o... CHRIS PRENTISS Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or j... ERYKAH BADU In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, an... PETER SINGER I have sympathy for why they're striking; some kind of action is justified. There are no members of ... EVA YOUNG As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emoti... DON BLUTH I think it's easy for people to say, 'Because you do this, you must be this kind of person, ... LAMAR ODOM We want either an apology or some kind of explanation as to why they chose to do the cartoons. AHMED AKKARI My mum is slightly biased and feels everything I do is wonderful, but Dad was like, 'You should ... DULQUER SALMAAN When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who y... DANIEL RADCLIFFE Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral ... GEORGE MCGOVERN It's good to be associated with this kind of action, this kind of heroism. JOHN DOUGLASS The connotation is you're getting some kind of sexual gratification, or wanting sexual gratification... CHRISTOPHER MURRAY Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth,... RICHARD P. FEYNMAN There really is no shortcut just because you have a name, or you have some kind of access or some wa... DAYMOND JOHN Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you
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[Lat., Facito aliquid ... ST. JOHN HONEYWOOD You don't pay the same price for a Ferrari as you do for a Honda Accord. But for some reason, fo... CATHERINE HARDWICKE Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through pap... GRETCHEN RUBIN I think I am a religious person just by nature. I think I sort of view everything through the lens o... JOHN DARNIELLE It's some form of trauma. Either someone has disturbed the birds, or some kind of predator is in the... CHARLES BUSH What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have peo... ROBERT JAY LIFTON All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions ... SAMUEL L. JACKSON Hard work always pays off some kind of way. DANTE HALL You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kin... FRANK ZAPPA To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity. ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE The formations force the defense to have to show more and do some things, which kind of give us an a... JAY DAVIS If you're a writer, the insight of other writers - if there's some kind of Holy Grail messag... JIM RASH If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actuall... DIPLO I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncin... TOM FRESTON If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ... ROBERT GRIFFIN III Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attract... COLIN FARRELL fumes were of gunpowder or some kind of chemical. BUENAVENTURA PASCUAL
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it's you who relieves me of my stress from the whole w... MIRA CIELE S. BUSANGILAN