Action Quotes

Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.

I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination.

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.

Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and its barbaric whaling industry... and we urge the President to take similar action against Japan and Norway as well!

Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.

Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.

I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.