Action Quotes

Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

Good managers have a bias for action.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.

After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.

I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.