Quotes About Action

We think the fastest way to clean the ocean is to learn by doing.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

I always enjoy fight scenes and being grubby and bloody and not having to look good. I prefer that very much, as odd as that sounds.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

My entire business model is to go on offense.

You should want to run if you're a player, shouldn't you, on offense?

There is no way I can go back and uncreate 8chan. If I could, I would, but there is no way to do that. So the main way I have dealt with the guilt is to go on the offensive.

If I'm not scoring, I better do something on the offensive end.

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

I wasn't offered a role in 'Expendables 1,' and I'm a guest star in 'Expendables 2.'

If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'

When you go to the mayor's office and you want something done, then that person should have the authority to do it for you. And if the person can't do it for you, then you should have the ability to hold that person responsible.

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

Sometimes James Bond movies drive me crazy. They're fun to watch, but they don't have anything to do at all with what intelligence officers really do.

We tour the world and my carbon footprint is massive. I feel like it's my responsibility to do something - not just to offset it but to help make a difference.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

I don't think through anything I do. I just do it, and it's oftentimes landed me in huge amounts of trouble.

The minute I think 'Oh God, I don't want to do this because I'm scared,' is the moment I have to do something, whatever it is.

I don't know if I can ever change the world, but at least I can change the oil in my car.

Tragically, no industry has done more to block crucial action to address climate change than the oil industry.

You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'

It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.