Quotes About Action

In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.

I feel that everyone has something different that moves them or that appeals to them. Maybe something in your family or maybe something in your life that happened that really pushes you for a specific cause - as long as there is something that you're doing.

No matter what you're doing. I feel that everyone has something different that moves them or that appeals to them. Maybe something in your family or maybe something in your life that happened that really pushes you for a specific cause - as long as there is something that you're doing.

I chose 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' specifically 'cause I had just made 'The Bourne Identity' and made a film that glamorized being an action hero, and I wanted to make the exact opposite. I wanted to make a movie that glamorized maintaining a marriage, and that made the action hero part seem easy and made the marriage part seem hard.

I don't know specifically what scenes I'd like to see violence in - I crave violence when I'm watching a John Hughes movie.

When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.

A movie like 'Edge of Tomorrow' is so huge and complex - the spectacle and action is all-consuming - and that on its own is enough of a reason for a lot of people to see it.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

The spectators want to see action, goals, tackles.

I just want to work with legislative council members from across the political spectrum to get things done.

I think it's hard to know how one deals in situations of confrontation until you're actually in there, so I'm not going to speculate on what I would do.

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.

I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

My job in the Senate is not just to give speeches and do interviews, it's to solve problems.

If you're in Congress, you vote and give speeches. But governors have to make decisions every day, and presidents have to make decisions every day.

This perception that a good captain is someone who beats his chest and roars like a lion and gives big Churchillian speeches, that's just not what leadership is about for me.

Football is a game of speed and drama.

Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.

I have two speeds, nothing and full pelt.

If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.