A Quote by Gloria Steinem

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

Gloria Steinem

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Act Acting Behaving Everything Matters Morally

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Gloria Steinem
American - Activist
Born: March 25, 1934

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

Robert Englund

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

George Bernard Shaw

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

Gloria Steinem

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

Penn Jillette

Everything ends, and Everything matters. Everything matters not in spite of the end of you and all that you love, but because of it. Everything is all you’ve got…and after Everything is nothing. So you were wise to welcome Everything, the good and the bad alike, and cling to it all. Gather it in. Seek the meaning in sorrow and don’t ever turn away, not once, from here until the end. Because it is all the same, it is all unfathomable, and it is all infinitely preferable to the one dreadful alternative.

Ron Currie Jr.

The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

Jacques Maritain

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

Sanford Meisner

She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting.

George Burns

As an actor, I believe that acting is actually behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

Saba Qamar

The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more. It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.

Gary Cole

When I act, I try to understand the character, why she's behaving like that.

Sibel Kekilli

We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is morally wrong to eat flesh, it is as morally wrong - and possibly more morally wrong - to consume dairy

Gary L. Francione

...In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one sort or another.... We describe these killings as men behaving "like animals," but if we could find a wild animal that showed signs of acting this way, it would be more precise to describe it as behaving like men.

Desmond Morris

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Theophrastus

I grew up near New York, and there were a lot of summer stock theaters in the area. I started an apprenticing with some of the theaters. Not really acting in them - I did everything else: everything but act.