Quotes About Action

I take decisions on the spur of a moment.

It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.

We need to take bold action to invest in infrastructure projects to spur our economy and ensure that we are protecting good paying jobs.

What I find interesting about Captain Action is that he is more an adventurer and spy than he is a soldier.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

I think 'The Spy Who Loved Me' was the best, or rather the one I enjoyed doing the most.

That's when it really came together for me that I was in a Bond film, to have my own spy car!

I love 'Bond' movies, I love spy movies.

When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.

I was Gerti Giggles in 'Spy Kids.'

I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.

I'd seen Jose Padilha's 'Elite Squad 1' and '2', and I'd seen his documentary, 'Bus 174'.

I believe in simplicity. Where some people in TNA take the high-flying back flip route, I'll replace that with a punch or a nice kick square to the face.

What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a joke action film. It slides through enough African-American pop culture signifiers to raise laughs out of those who will appreciate the references; it revels in more cheese per square inch than a soul food diner.

Dive on them and squash them if you must.

Racism can be stopped in football stadiums but it all depends on what the FA and UEFA want to do about it.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

I've done all sorts of different kinds of action. We did a thing in 'Blood Diamond,' the attack on Freetown, where I carefully staged the action but did not show the camera operators what we were going to film - so it has the feel of documentary, trying to capture something, and that gave it a whole different feel.

The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

I love staging action and wide-shots, not necessarily going to close-ups.

Everyone wants change. Donald is the only one that can deliver it. We should not be satisfied with stagnation.

Running backwards down the stairs, holding the camera, trying to focus on what's in front of you is difficult, and you need to be able to protect the camera.

I can't just lie in bed and be self-obsessed if there are two children running about who could easily fall down the stairs.