Quotes About Action

What I implore you to do is believe that if you make courageous choices and bet on yourself and put yourself out there that you will have an impact as a result of what you do, and you don't need to know now what that will be, or how that will happen, because nobody ever does.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

I wanted to be a cowboy in cowboy movies.

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

I think that our country would probably be better-served if we had people that were wearing work boots... crafting legislation.

With all the crap that's going on around the world, you kind of want to do what you can to protect the ones you love.

I like to go and do something adventurous. I like to go out and do some sort of crazy activity.

I've always believed that the audience and the energy that the audience creates is sometimes just as important as the action inside of the ring.

I want to be the team that creates the action more than be the reactor.

If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'

For action to work, you need an awful lot of coverage. Because if you do a fight sequence, you really need to be able to creed the energy in the edit or augment the energy in the edit. So you need to really, really cover it.

So many of us who've been thinking about the ecological crisis have had this horrible creeping feeling, like nothing was getting done and it was getting worse.

I am not one of those girls who will sit on my bed and crib that nothing is happening with my life and things are not working.

When we look at economic crises, it is more often policy makers do too little than too much.

A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?

What you say and do in a crisis matters.

We're Americans - in times of crisis, we step up.

Let's stop talking about crisis. Let's work instead.

The longer it takes to respond to a major development or crisis, the higher the chance of violence being seen as the only answer.

Only because you moved forwards, it doesn't mean you were effective. Sometimes it's the wrong criteria to be used.

Be a doer and not a critic.

I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on with whatever I have in hand, you know? Just try to make the best job of the available material.

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.