Action Quotes

Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I'll continue to do it.

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.

You will know the joy of action only when you are blissful by your own nature.

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'

John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.

Yesterday for contemplation, today for action.

Discipline is consistency of action.

When somebody says, Action, I act. When they say, Cut, thats my job. Ive done it.

In comedy, beware the split focus. The audience should focus on the face of the actor. The audience must see the setup. If there is action elsewhere on the stage, the comic line can be lost.

The Kennedy home was a place of much action and laughter, a lively, brawling mob of children overseen by a mother who knew when to look the other way.

Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.

Leadership is character in action.

Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.

The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

Commitment . . . is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action. It is essential to the good life. It is doing what everyone can do.

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

Tis human actions paint the chart of time.

If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them.

At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.

If there is no way out, the best course of action is to find a way further in.

[Tom] Steyer is specifically spending money on candidates who will take action against climate change.

By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to write a book with a little more edge than I was allowed in romance.

For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.

We have the ability to manifest our thoughts: to actually say something and express what our feelings are. That, then, transforms the world and puts something into action.

That's the challenging thing with TV; it's not the action scenes per se, and it's not the location scenes and the heavy dialog scenes, but the fact that there is just no let-up; there is no break.

Sometimes there are people who don't know how to make action movies - and that situation isn't a good one.

I know, a lot of the films I've done, it's obvious I'm going to beat up six guys and just walk out the door. There's not a lot of motivating factors - it's just action for the sake of action.

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.

Gesture is not always action.

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.

Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.

She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.

What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.

Action can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning.