Quotes About Action

You can't be dismissive of important things. You have to speak out, even if you don't get the results you would like to have.

I don't believe in letting my words speak for me, I let my actions speak.

Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

I know what it takes to move cities forward. It's not about rhetoric and great speaking, but it takes relationships.

Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

Judy Hopps truly believes in something. We're not just giving her the run of the story, where we give her everything. Through her actions, she has to prove what she believes in. Personally speaking, I think that's cool.

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.

When I do an action thing, it speaks louder than the things that I've done that are dramatic and comedy. Actually, if you look at my resume, I have just as much comedic things as dramas, and I have far less action things than all of the other things, but I'm kind of defined as an action person.

When I first encountered the 'Sigma Force' novels - long before I became friends with Jim Rollins - a bookseller told me that these stories were about 'geeks with guns.' While not entirely accurate, that's pretty close to the mark, and that really speaks to me.

I'm someone that speaks with their pads.

For me, a wake-up playlist completely depends on what mood I'm in. If I need to get into action pretty quick, it will be between Beyonce and Miles Davis. I'm a massive Beyonce fan, and all of her anthems will do it for me. And Miles Davis, because I grew up hearing his music because my dad played it a lot, so that will always be special to me.

When I was a kid, I loved action, war, horror, monster movies... Anything with special effects. I was fascinated with how'd they do that.

'Heroes' was a huge show with 12 cast members and giant special effects.

There are so many sequels where everything between the special effects is just boring.

X-Force was made like a brutal X-Men club - they're doing special forces, R-rated things.

No trooper, no special forces operative wants to sit behind a desk. We joined up to kick some doors down.

We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.

If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.

There is a severe horse overpopulation crisis caused by overbreeding in the racing industry. It's time for that industry to accept responsibility for its castoffs and take dramatic action to protect a species that has so loyally served humankind.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

No matter how healthy you are today, you can take specific actions to have more energy and live longer.

Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.