Action Quotes

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

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.

In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.

Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece.

I am so grateful to everybody that supports the Sheckler Foundation, and gives us the ability to continue to help kids and injured action sports athletes.

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.

We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television.

All the action, in semiconductors at the present time is in the new consumer applications, and that's where we have focused our activities since we started doing our own products in the late '90s.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.

When I did the first 'Matrix,' after it came out, I had a woman come up to me and just thank me for Trinity because she was an action writer. She said she was getting really good opportunities now.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.