Quotes About Action

What woman doesn't want to go out there and kick some butt? I did it with a sword in 'Conan,' I did it with a crossbow in 'G.I. Joe,' and I've got my multi-tool and my super-suit in 'Continuum.' It's really a release, and it's quite cool.

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

Give me a sword fight any day.

So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.

Every time you do a big sword fight surrounded by a couple of hundred extras, it's a fun day at work.

I like playing guys with swords and the horses and stuff like that.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

Adrenaline, swords - you just get off on it.

Acting is a symbiotic process, it is an amalgamation of many many things put together and when there is a call for action, that's when you surrender and the moment of truth comes out, that's when you perform. That is the process for every good actor.

I remember at one point being in fellowship, and everyone used to wear the fish symbol; it said you were a Christian. So I asked my father, 'Dad, why don't you wear that at work?' And he said, 'Your religion should be in your actions.' He set a great, great example.

So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

We had taken the cups for coffee out of the building as a cost-saving measure, but left the coffee. Somebody thought it was symbolic to do this.

I flee from symbols. I think those who don't want to solve problems go to the symbols. I'm looking for content.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

Sympathy is important, but it rings hollow if not followed by action.

The American people didn't send us to Congress to post our sympathies on social media. You can do that without going through the trouble of getting elected to Congress. This job is about setting rules that better protect us and our children.

My faith tells me where to go and get started and what kind of sympathy to have for people once you get there.

I have long argued that ISIS and Assad are not separate problems to be chosen between, but are action and reaction, cause and symptom, chicken and egg: impossible to untangle no matter how much we might like to.

The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.

The United States and its Gulf allies, some of who are actively funding rebel groups in Syria, should undertake a serious joint review of Jordan's needs and then act together to meet them.

There's a real question of what the United States could do if we detain somebody out of Syria right now.

Given that the president has not yet demonstrated why military action is in our best interest, given that the administration will not be constrained to keep boots off the ground, and given that there is no clear end-game, I am against the president's resolution to go to war in Syria.

Doing something to make ourselves feel better is beside the real point of defeating Isis and ending the Syrian civil war.

Things I've been talking about for a long time as systemic problems, the American public has also begun to see something needs to be done down here.