Best 4991 quotes in «action quotes» category

I'm finished ... I'm done. What I want above all things is to take some active part in beating the Germans ... I'd go out to the Front at once.

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

I'm going to proportion more time to organizing and taking action and less time to passively consuming news that is dispiriting me. Part of this will be to get off social media. I know social media is just a tool, but we've been using it in a way that has transformed us from a nation into an audience, passively spectating our own ruin.

I'm going to take a series of actions on day one to protect American workers.

I'm in the action, but I'm not in the action. A lot of the interpreting I do sometimes borders on performance. It gives me a personality and a presence to show the importance of interpreters in the life of a person who is Deaf.

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

I'm just 'bout that action boss.

I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.

I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

I'm measuring my actions against that inner voice that for me at least is audible, is active, it tells me where I think I'm on track and where I think I'm off track.

'Immortals' is all action. I love action movies. That's really where I want to spearhead my career.

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

I'm not a sketch writer. I know what I am: I have a sensitive comedic sensibility. What turns me on is subtle neurosis. That's my game. I'm not an action writer or a thriller writer and I'm not a sketch writer. I don't pretend to be those things. Then it would not be fun. Then you are in a space where this is painful.

I'm not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it's quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we're not involved as actors.

I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.

I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.

Impeachment is our system's last resort for someone who treats himself or herself as above the law, the most relevant thing is whether this president, by his recent course of action, on top of his violations of the foreign corruption or emoluments clause, this president has shone that he cannot be trusted to remain within the law and our constitution's last resort for situations of that kind is to get the person out of office.

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

I'm pretty sure no one's reading action scripts saying, 'This has got to be Ed Helms.'

I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going to be a happy Democrat.

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.

I'm ready to be an action figure. I'd love that very much. And all the redheaded kids will get to go out and feel loved and be able to buy a redheaded action figure.

I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

I'm sure that Zhang Lanxin could be an outstanding action movie actress. For one thing, she wouldn't require a stand-in. As for Yao Xingtong, she might be an excellent action performer in her next life.

I myself find waiting more tiring than action.

I'm the kind of person that thinks that you should get what you deserve in what you show, with actions, not with words.

I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.

In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.

In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

In a love scene that's really advantageous because you don't have that horrible moment of: "We don't really know what we're supposed to be doing, we just know we're supposed to be snogging and then shagging." Then the director shouts "action" and it's like: "Should I feel her boobs? I don't want to feel her boobs!

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

In Armenia, the power de facto belongs to those who opted to take violent action in Karabakh. We are dealing with a military dictatorship that utilizes some kind of democratic procedures.

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in the cultural field. By frustrating the scribe's craving for commanding action, the trader draws upon himself the scribe's wrath and scorn.

In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.