Action Quotes

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear.

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

I enjoy 'Supermarket Sweep' because of its adlib demands in following the fast action.

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.

Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

Justice is the truth in action.

A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

I've never done an action show, really. On 'Jericho,' other people got to ride horses and shoot guns, but I never did.

In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

I'm not looking at an action movie as something where I just jump around and look beautiful and show my muscles. Since there are so few people that do this and have that pedigree, people disregard their contribution.

Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.

Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.

I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.