Quotes About Action

Preparing for action sequences helps me stay fit.

I don't know if likeable, pleasant characters have enough conflict for me to want to do them. I admire those people, but I've never been that kind of screen presence who can do nothing. I need to do something.

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

You can't look in the future and can't dwell on the past. It's all about the present and what you do each day.

I got to go out there and make plays when they are presented to me.

Of course, I could try IVF. But having watched my friend TV presenter Clare Nasir go through it, I know how tough the journey is. Emotional fool I may be, but even I can see that's too selfish a course of action to impose on my family.

I think, as a woman in action in the business, you would be stupid not to express interest. Any female action role that presents itself as an opportunity I would throw myself at!

We know what we need to do. Let's re-elect President Obama!

The administration must act promptly to ensure that the central premise of the Affordable Care Act is executable and, rather than dismissing criticism, should examine it in good faith and work to serve the needs of the people. President Obama must approach this problem like a CEO confronting a very bad product launch.

President Trump is doing what he can to act decisively. And if there's one thing most people have in mind in distinguishing the business world from the political world is that the CEO of a business can act decisively.

Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.

Joe Biden cannot leave the lives of those on death row in the hands of future presidents. If he truly opposes the death penalty, he must do everything in his power to stop it for good.

Over the years, increasing partisanship has led many members of Congress reflexively to speak in favor of any military action launched by presidents of their own party while withholding support to presidents of the opposing party.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

The press never accepts at face value that the President is taking a certain action because he wants to create jobs or because he believes that it is in the best interests of the American people or that he is genuinely committed to making life better for people.

I want a politics that doesn't need to pretend to be holy or perfect or infallible. I want a politics that gets on with it.

What kid doesn't want to pretend they're James Bond?

I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.

I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance.

'Basra' is high on content, but a good dose of action sequences will make it edgy and pretty dark as well.

People would come to me and say, 'Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?' At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie.

I saw 'Predators.' That was pretty good, actually.

I'm pretty gutsy. Dancers don't think about things; they just do them.

If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.