If You Love Me Act Like It Quotes

“I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my mills, my Metal, my hours at a desk, at a furnace, in a laboratory, in an ore mine, as I love my ability to work, as I love the act of sight and knowledge, as I love the action of my mind when it solves a chemical equation or grasps a sunrise, as I love the things I've made and the things I've felt, as *my* product, as *my* choice, as a shape of my world, as my best mirror, as the wife I've never had, as that which makes all the rest of it possible: as my power to live.”

— Ayn Rand

“The men in my life have always been the folks who are wary of using the word 'love' lightly. They are wary because they believe women make too much of love. And they know that what we think love means is not always what they believe it means. Our confusion about what we mean when we use the word 'love' is the source of our difficulty in loving. If our society had a commonly held understanding of the meaning of love, the act of loving would not be so mystifying.”

— Bell Hooks

“Do you see, Harry? Do you see the flaw in my brilliant plan now? I had fallen into the trap I had foreseen, that I had told myself I could avoid, that I must avoid."
"I don't -"
"I cared about you too much," said Dumbledore simply. "I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.
"Is there a defense? I defy anyone who has watched you as I have - and I have watched you more closely than you can have imagined - not to want to save you more pain than you had already suffered. What did I care if numbers of nameless and faceless people and creatures were slaughtered in the vague future, if in the here and now you were alive, and well, and happy? I never dreamed that I would have such a person on my hands.”

— J.K. Rowling

“I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.”

— J.K. Rowling

“I'm a normal kid, really. I just love to act.”

— Elle Fanning

“I would love to act. I probably won't make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I'd love to act.”

— Richard Hammond

“I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.”

— Autumn Reeser

“Am I afraid to die? I am every time I let myself be seduced by the noisy voices of my world telling me that my "little life" is all I have and advising me to cling to it with all my might. But when I let these voices move to the background of my life and listen to that small soft voice calling me the Beloved, I know that there is nothing to fear and that dying is the greatest act of love, the act that leads me into the eternal embrace of my God whose love is everlasting.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

“I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.”

— Amanda Peterson

“To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.”

— Scott Caan

“I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.”

— Christopher Meloni

“I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.”

— Christopher Meloni

“Act because you love to act.”

— Mae Whitman

“Actors love to act all those death scenes.”

— Colin Baker

“I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.”

— Callum Keith Rennie

“I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.”

— Jimmy Smits

“I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.”

— Tinashe

“I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'”

— T. J. Thyne

“Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.”

— Jenn Proske

“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.”

— Jessica Hahn

“I don't think I'm a star. I just love to act. I'm not thinking I'm even close to where I want to be.”

— Justin Chon

“I love to act. I want to be doing this forever, and I love to learn from people who I think are better.”

— Jenna Dewan

“You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.”

— Whoopi Goldberg

“Independent film is for actors that love to act.”

— John Leguizamo

“I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.”

— John Turturro

“I have grown up watching Bollywood movies, and I would love to act in them.”

— Navi Rawat

“I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.”

— John Corbett

“I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.”

— Paula Cole

“I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'”

— Gary Ross

“While self-esteem touches virtually every aspect of our existence, there are two aspects to which it is related in very distinct and powerful ways: work and love. Through work and through love, we act out the level of our confidence and our sense of personal worth. The drama of our life is the external reflection of our internal vision of ourselves. The higher the level of our self-esteem, the more likely it is that we will find a work and a love through which we can express ourselves in satisfying and enriching ways.”

— Nathaniel Branden

“I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.”

— Jodie Foster

“I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.”

— Reba McEntire

“I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant.”

— Joe Jonas

“I like to make money; I like to have nice things. But I love to act; I love to tell stories.”

— Shemar Moore

“Because I'm so much in the spotlight, people lose sight of why I'm in the industry. In fact, I'm doing all this because I love to act. I love to perform, to sing.”

— Lindsay Lohan

“The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into the experience of union.”

— Erich Fromm

“Few love to hear the sins they love to act.”

— William Shakespeare

“I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to destructure, to bleed, to preserve, to recognize, to see, to hide, to show, to tell, to think, to stop thinking, to detest, to love, to act, to be still, to laugh, to cry, to detest, but mostly to love for now I am human, but in a few short years I will be something else.”

— Janice Tanton

“People say, "Why is it that you love to act?" And you want to say, "Well, most of acting is sitting in your trailer, either bored or worried about the scene coming up." A lot of it is about things you don't really like, so it's a wonder why acting is such a huge draw, why everyone loves it so much.”

— Anjelica Huston

“You cannot act in love and act in fear at the same time. You must choose between them.”

— Gary Zukav

“The thing is, as an actor, I get bored a little bit. I love to act. And between action and cuts, when you work for somebody great, it's wonderful and I still love it. The moment where you create, that instant is still magic to me. But, all the rest, I get bored with it - all the waiting, and the fact that you have to make appearances, that you have to share your life.”

— Vincent Cassel

“I love to act and that's sort of my first love. That's what I started out doing.”

— Zoe Kazan

“The Eucharist is a never-ending sacrifice. It is the Sacrament of love, the supreme love, the act of love.”

— Katharine Drexel

“Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love ... When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.”

— Krishna Das

“Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either. We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.”

— Adyashanti

“You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing up, it is spirit and dream, thought and love and act that matter.”

— Gene Wolfe

“I just love to act. It's my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting, to me, is the creative challenge. So, different kinds of characters, that's what I just love to do.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I love to act, I love to sing and I love to entertain, so if I am passionate about a certain project and I want to do it, I hope to stretch my acting skills.”

— Julianne Hough

“You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write ... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always been the basis of everything I do. I'm a writer who performs, not a performer who writes. I love the act of writing. It's still a thrill for me.”

— Clive James