Action Quotes

I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.

I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

If you want to make money and have action, you need to work from like, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Those are the hours. That just doesn't fit with a lot of people's schedules. And that's just the start of it. You've got to realize what you are getting into.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.

I love doing the action stuff. It's soooo much fun!

Every person's every action has an effect.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

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

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.

It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.