Thinking First Before Acting Quotes & Sayings

In order to be able to work with somebody in acting, you've first got to think that person's a good actor before you can enjoy working with them. I guess that goes with the trust. — Tim DeKay

I could have drowned ... and my brother didn't even care. — Erica Sehyun Song

Is what's manifesting as a fear actually some instinct to resist being young? Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it's too late. Is the sense of imminent death bound up in the desire to leave some kind of a legacy? — Lena Dunham

Love is an inspiration. It moves you. It motivates you. It keeps you going. — Dee Dee Artner

The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug. — Russell Simmons

Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact. — Napoleon Hill

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary. — Arthur Balfour

Its hard to show people everything, you know? You never know what they'll do with it once they have it. — Nick Burd

An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands. — John Wooden

I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids. — Hume Cronyn

Just do it! First you make your habits, then your habits make you! — Lucas Remmerswaal

There is no door that leads to the meaning of existence, no window to enlightenment. If only we could enter life through the exit and live in reverse; then maybe we'd have a chance at understanding what the hell life is about. — Barbara Schoichet

They guillotined Charlotte Corday and they said Marat is dead. No, Marat is not dead. Put him in the Pantheon or throw him in the sewer; it doesn't matter-he's back the next day. He's reborn in the man who has no job, the woman who has no bread, in the girl who has to sell her body, in the child who hasn't learned to read; he's reborn in the unheated tenement, in the wretched mattress without blankets, in the unemployed, in the proletariat, in the brothel, in the jailhouse, in your laws that show no pity, in your schools that give no future, and he appears in all that is ignorance and he recreates himself from all that is darkness. Oh, beware human society: you cannot kill Marat until you have killed the misery of poverty! — Victor Hugo

Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits. — Robert Haugen