Action Quotes
-
'A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.
-
Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.
-
Never mistake motion for action.
-
Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.
-
I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.
-
We are monitoring the global companies on a daily basis, and their rating continues to be investment grade. We will take immediate action if anything goes wrong.
-
When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.
-
I see the first 'Bourne' movie as really kind of a fulcrum in changing the modern action film, where things are really gritty and really character-driven. Think about how the entire Bond franchise was completely radicalized by Bourne.
-
Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
-
Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.
-
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.
-
Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.
-
I always wanted to make big action movies as a kid, and that was my dream. In a way, 'Swingers' was the thing I suffered through the most doing because of all that dialog, so I could eventually be allowed to do a big dumb action movie, honestly.
-
There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.
-
When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be alive, living, breathing thinking and having emotions, that's animation. But when you take something that's live-action, and move a part of it, that's a special effect.
-
Action can cure fear and hesitation and doubt.
-
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.
-
We're not going to suspend him immediately. We will make him aware of the violation and tell him to clean up his act. If he doesn't, we'll take further action.
-
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.
-
In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.
-
Ending the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program was a serious mistake that will harm the United States and will spark a national political crisis.
-
In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.
-
Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.
-
I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.
Chaka Fattah
