Quotes About Action

You either did something about it or you didn't, and then you lived with the choice you made. It didn't

In the end, people generally regret the things they didn't do, not the things they did. (p. 96, Trevor Benson)

The going was rough, and it was time to get going. There was no time like the present, because the early bird catches the worm.

Just get on with it.' That's a life motto.

If you go up on a mountain and scream about change, you better make sure you're ready for people to come.

We need to play between the whistles. That's what tough competitors do. They don't run their mouth.

It's what you do every time. You isolate what you know, and you create a mental image of what you're doing. Every time you speak you don't have to think about it. Words come out of your mouth based on what you know. That's the same job every time.

A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.

I like to put my money where my mouth is and go out there and perform and do what I gotta do.

I think the world needs this - somebody out there to question everything, and put their money where their mouth is.

Big mouths can't do anything, you have to prove it in the cage.

I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it.

When you're cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight.

Great ideas are very much 'of the moment,' and endlessly mulling them over just takes up too much of your brain space and might block your next great idea. Act on it, give it away, or move on.

Either move or be moved.

Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

I love movement. I love moshing.

And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw.

You have to keep building. Movements have to move forward.

We did a lot of fight scenes in 'Hitman: Agent 47,' so you have to learn repetitious movements to music; otherwise, it's amazingly boring. Michael Jackson was our savior.

I love doing fight scenes. I've been a dancer since I was 3 years old, so I think that helped me with the movements.

Mind moves matter.

If there's a great opportunity, obviously we're going to do it early. But the main thing is, you want to do great moves when they are available. But often the best move is not a move that is done right away.

In 'The Matrix,' you see the fight between Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishburne. It's an amazing fight. But I know that they've rehearsed it for months beforehand. Because in some of the moves you can see them anticipating blocks before they actually happen.