Action Quotes

The ferment and viability in any society is directly proportionate to the number of people actively living their ideas. This is not positive thinking - it is positive action: the spirit of experiment.

~ Marilyn Ferguson

All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.

~ Sienna Miller

I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.

~ Dick Gephardt

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

~ Liam Neeson

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.

~ Jason Statham

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

~ Steven Seagal

Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.

~ Dallas Roberts

I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.

~ Emma Stone

I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.

~ Nathan Fillion

One of the first movies my dad took me to see was the original 'Road Warrior.' And I was kind of raised on the action movies of that era: 'The Terminator' and 'Die Hard' and, of course, all of the 'Star Wars' movies.

~ Aisha Tyler

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

~ Jason Statham

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.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

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

~ Jackie Chan

I don't think people are experiencing superhero fatigue. Do you hear people complaining that there are too many action movies? I think it's good entertainment.

~ Michael Pena

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

~ Monica Bellucci

I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man... there is a tradition in the most simplistic of action movies for there to be some horrible villain.

~ Edward Zwick

There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different kinds of people or whatever. The truth is action is not any different than any other part of a story.

~ Patty Jenkins

I really like action movies. The 'Die Hard' franchise. And the 'Bourne' movies.

~ Alexa Chung

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

~ Catherine Deneuve

I've always been really into action movies. Since I was little, that was my favorite type of film.

~ Austin Butler

I'm really interested in mythology and folklore. I'm interested in moralities, why we're here, faith... all of these bigger questions that I think we can place in films that allow us to question and give us a safe place to feel. Those types of questions can pop up in all sorts of different types of films - drama, comedy, action movie.

~ Brie Larson

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

~ Cyril Connolly

There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.

~ Athol Fugard

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

~ Herbert Simon

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

~ William Butler Yeats

There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.

~ Neill Blomkamp

The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.

~ George B. Mcclellan

Trust me, if I were gay I'd be getting more action than I'm getting now.

~ Ryan Seacrest

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

~ Steven Brust

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

~ Hannah Arendt

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

~ Gertrude Stein

Unless someone wants to look funny, I'll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I'm thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

~ Virat Kohli

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

~ Tony Hawk

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

~ Emma Goldman

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

~ Arnold H. Glasow

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

~ John Avlon

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

~ Shoshana Zuboff

Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.

~ Justin Sane

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

~ Theodore Roosevelt