Action Quotes
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I don't get the action... well, I never did get the big action hero parts. I was always locked into making the kids movies, which were a lot of fun.
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To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.
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I've done all sorts of different kinds of action. We did a thing in 'Blood Diamond,' the attack on Freetown, where I carefully staged the action but did not show the camera operators what we were going to film - so it has the feel of documentary, trying to capture something, and that gave it a whole different feel.
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I think the combination of action and the combination of comedy are two really, really good genres to meld together.
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Russia has not taken part and is not going to take part in any actions aimed at removing legitimate government.
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Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action, you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon.
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Never mistake motion for action.
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The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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I watched the coral reefs that I studied as a student vanish in the blink of an eye, and for decades I wrote and spoke of ocean obituaries. But big scary problems without solutions lead to apathy, not action.
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Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
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I'm just 'bout that action boss.
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All human action is expressive; a gesture is an intentionally expressive action. All art is expressive - of its author and of the situation in which he works - but some art is intended to move us through visual gestures that transmit, and perhaps give release to, emotions and emotionally charged messages. Such art is expressionist.
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It is incredibly daunting to take on a live-action story. I think that it adds a level of complexity to the responsibility that goes beyond what I've experienced on these two films (The Lorax and Horton Hears a Who).
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I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.
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Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone and summoned him into action. Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.
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Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.
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Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.
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Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.
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When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.
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There's good action stars. I'm a bad-guy action star. What disappoints me is when you all of a sudden you get a good action star and then he wants to play a comedy with kids, you know? That upsets me, and that's not being true to your fans.
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The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.
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What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.
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I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.
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I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.
