Action Quotes

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.

And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.

The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.

You won't get ahead until you get off your behind.

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

I learn by going where I have to go.

One can't be free without action.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

I grew up in a household with two brothers and we lived in the bush. We were constantly building weapons and forts and things. But I didn't set out to be an action hero.

The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it.

Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

There is a time to deliberate... and a time to act. Learn to recognize which is which, and act accordingly.

["War Horse"] does have action as well, but we allow the audience to appreciate the environment where these characters are from because the lens shapes the people, as we know.

Successful people are action oriented.

Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction

You cannot embrace the action or play the role correctly if you're having someone else do the movements for you. I want to be doing it myself, unless it's going to be a train wreck.

Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.

I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.

Through unity of action we can be a veritable colossus in support of peace. No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. Every one of us must be guided by this truth.

The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them.

I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.

You don't deserve words, Sky. You deserve actions.

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

My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.

Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment.

Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.

You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that's where your focus should be. And then there's a lot of levity in between and a lot of good fun.

I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.

How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.

When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.

I only want the truth to be known, for everyone to take responsibility for their actions.

Everyone has this conjecture that action films are somewhat less prestigious than dramatic films. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've done them both and this is hard and dangerous.

It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

When a secretary of state rakes in millions and millions of dollars trading access and favors to special interests and foreign powers, I know the time for action has come.

The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.

I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.

Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.

You don't want to have to chase the action. Get yourself in the right place and the action comes to you.

Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal they've set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities.

Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action...we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for the rest of our natural lives

Meditation is the action of silence.

Your only defense can be you were so madly in love you weren't responsible for your actions.