Action Quotes

You get a role like this in a big action movie [like Jack Reacher] and you can go one of two ways: you can paint in broad strokes, which happens a lot in action films, or you can get very detailed.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie.

The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

We really wanted it to be an action movie. Those are the movies that we love. We're big fans of like Shane Black movies, when we were younger - me and Evan [Goldberg].

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.

The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally discriminate.

I'm always feeling like I have to do some bad action movie for money.

It's great to see a relatable, accessible young woman out there, doing things and breaking the barriers for what would be considered an action movie.

I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going to be a happy Democrat.

I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.

No one is immune from either taking the wrong action or not taking action at all, but the sense that something is completely out of a person's control is stronger in China.

Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.

I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

Order, thou eye of action.

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.

I'm just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it's amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.

There are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.

We don't tolerate terrorism. We go after the terrorists and those who support them and those who justify their actions.

That's what we do on 'Entourage.' We embed ourselves in legitimate authentic moments so wherever the action is happening, we're taking pieces from that red carpet.

A practical girl never pines; she takes action.

My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.

What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.

When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the kinds of things that our ancestors survived.

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.

I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.

I get angry when people bring derisory actions against me.

I've signed a few Kaytoo photos and things and a couple of action figures [on ComicCon], but really it's not that many.

Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.

I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.

Non-stop action and a hero to die for!

Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else in the world.

The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.

Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

we sometimes forget the influence of action upon thought. ... Smile, whistle, sing, play the part you want to be until you become the part you play.

We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.

Consequentialist theories begin with a very simple and undoubtedly valid point: Every action aims at a future end, and is seen as a means to it.

We can establish empirical criteria for free actions, and investigate human actions on the presupposition we are free.

I mean, yeah, maybe our fate is sometimes fixed and unchangeable, but there are other times when its shaped purely by the actions we take.

Personally, when I go to Tulum, I prefer to be near the action but not in the midst of it.

REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

I've always really loved action films, but I don't see myself as a superhero girl.