Brett Gelman Quotes

A crazy action only works if there's a great reaction.

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• Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Stress
  • U.S.
  • Reaction

• 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.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Together
  • Change
  • Action

• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Movement
  • Beliefs

• I have a real taste for doing action roles. I starred in a movie called 'Blast,' which was my first action film, and I loved the fighting - I think I've got the build, the attitude and the look for it.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Think

• I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Action
  • Lost

• I don't really think much about how I would have fared in the Second World War. It's a topic that has to be treated with respect and subtlety, and you can't just go in all guns blazing and make an epic action film.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • World
  • War
  • Respect

• Philanthropists can learn important lessons from business entrepreneurs. They both spend their time solving problems. And to be successful, they both must overcome physical challenges and create self-sustaining operations. And ultimately, they must allow people to take action for their own benefit.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Opinion
  • Democracy

• Deeds rather than words express my concept of the part religion should play in everyday life. I have watched constantly that in our movie work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether it deals with fable or with stories of living action.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Work
  • Movie

• 'All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Action
  • Suffering

• The old, you must remember, though considered incapable of action, have nevertheless a good fund of experience on which to draw.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Remember

• I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both a balm and a call to action.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • Music
  • Help

• For those of you looking for your action-packed read, check out 'Red Queen' by Victoria Aveyard and 'Vengeance Road' by Erin Bowman. One's a fantasy and one's a Western, but they both feature strong leading ladies and some harrowing twists!

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • Strong
  • Action
  • Road

• It's a feeling I can't describe, to see my work in action. The best is when an artist is appreciative.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Action

• Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• I just think action films now have... often, because you can do anything with CGI, people do. And I don't think you necessarily should. You lose that sort of human dimension, and you get all the stuff breaking the laws of physics.

  

  James Watkins
  • People
  • Action

• Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • Character
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Holiday

• There is no doubt that the actions of ISIS are designed to amplify their power and the threat that they pose. That helps them recruit. That adds in the twisted thoughts of some young person that they might want to have carry out an action that somehow they're part of a larger movement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Action
  • Thoughts

• But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are or not, we do it naturally. So the way we construct our narrative is different from the way we constructed it a year ago. The difference is maybe very small or it may be huge.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Life
  • Die
  • Born

• What people don't realize about Donald Trump - and I don't even know if Donald Trump realizes it - is that every tweet he unleashes against you... creates such a crescendo of anger.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • People
  • Trump

• A crazy action only works if there's a great reaction.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Action
  • Works
  • Reaction