Action Quotes

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.

This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world.

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the whole adventure.

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do.

Action scenes get me so excited, and my adrenaline starts pumping.

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.