Action Quotes

• It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.

  

  Maria Jeritza
  • Music
  • She
  • Character

• There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• The fact of the matter is that an actor, if I'm playing a performance capture role and you're playing a live action role and we're having a scene together, there's no difference in our acting processes.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Live
  • Together
  • Action

• All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Single

• Heritage Action is a self-interested fundraising organization led by a former Giuliani staffer who is not taking counsel from real conservatives... It is a worthless organization to the conservative movement. I'll be the first to say that.

  

  Geoff Davis
  • Real
  • Action
  • Organization

• I'm not interested in going and doing a big, action-adventure romp with nothing to say about being a human being.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Doing
  • Adventure
  • Nothing

• There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.

  

  George Osborne
  • Real
  • Fear
  • Thanks

• Many other cities could go the way that Los Angeles went last night unless the president is willing to step in and take some strong action in terms of letting people know that he cares about this issue.

  

  Maxine Waters
  • People
  • Night
  • Strong

• You really need to learn how to turn it on for 'action' and off for 'cut.'

  

  James Purefoy
  • Action

• My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Father
  • Words
  • Law

• Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Good
  • Action

• Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Men
  • Violence
  • Ambition

• I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Done
  • Black
  • Community

• Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Firsts

• There's an arc to an action sequence, and you need to come out the other end knowing your character better, and maybe the story has moved forward in a compelling way.

  

  David Leitch
  • Character
  • Action

• If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movies
  • Week
  • Savage

• I like the action business. I like the action movies. I guess Hollywood wants to see me do action. So I am down. I like it.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • Business
  • Movies
  • Hollywood

• Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

  

  Frank Murphy
  • Freedom
  • Action

• I don't believe in lynching, I just don't support legal action being taken against the KKK

  

  Liz Cheney
  • Believe
  • Support
  • Taken

• Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.

  

  Baba Hari Dass
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Winning

• People want to see realism in action now.

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • People
  • Want
  • Realism

• (About Cesare Borgia) What cruelties were not the result of his? Who could count all his crimes? Such was the man that Machiavel prefers to all the great geniuses of his time, and to the heroes of antiquity, and of which he finds the life and action make a good example for those that fortune favors.

  

  Frederick the Great
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I want to work with Will Ferrell. I want to do, like, an action-comedy with him. How do I get the project for that? It's killing me. I've got all these great ideas, and the hardest thing is getting the material, the screenplay, you know.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Work
  • Great
  • Comedy

• I think in television and film, it's not usually the child's point of view. It's the story of an adult. If there's a child in a drama or an action-adventure movie, they're someone who needs to be saved, someone who needs to be protected, or if they're killed, someone who needs to be avenged. Their character doesn't matter much.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Drama

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