Quotes About Action

We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

We need to do something about the culture of violence.

Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

A sword in hand is a sure sign of a violent mind; but one does not become non-violent merely by throwing the sword away.

We would naturally prefer not to reckon with the worst of what people do or say on the margins, but we have to. Especially if it seems possible to trace a line from vicious rhetoric on a computer screen to violent action.

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

I feel like the world gets so consumed and gobbled up by action, and the pace of life is so frantic, and people feel like, in order to move somebody, you have to do something shocking or violent or something insane and fast.

My top priority as Attorney General is to continue the fight against violent crime, and step it up wherever needed.

I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy and very bloodthirsty - but life, for me, is a violent thing.

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

I like doing violent movies.

Chicago, I feel, is a microcosm for the segregated, violent environment that is America. I try to not only speak about these things in music, but also try to address these things in real life tangibly with action.

I mean, football is a violent sport.

We don't necessarily ever dig into consequences, right? We have the violent act and then cinematically we tend to walk away and we forget that there's collateral damage.

'Drohi' is a thriller, quite action-oriented, at times, even violent, but blood will not be spilt at the drop of a hat.

I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.

Unlike in Washington, Virginia's leaders don't run from serious problems. We tackle them.