Action Quotes

Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.

And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.

Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.

When I see someone in a military uniform I make it a point to approach them, shake their hand and say five words... 'thank you for your service.' 'Stars Earn Stripes' is a high energy, fun, action show, but at its heart it is all about those five words.

Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.

While different people may approach opportunities in different ways, we need to base decisions on a fundamental set of values as we chart our course of action.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.

In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

Without action, we are going to continue to allow Iran to be a safe harbor for terrorists, see its economy further deteriorate, and see the Middle East further destabilize.

It was never really my choice to be an action heroine.

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.

One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.