Quotes About Action

All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action.

I think you should check out 'Battle: Los Angeles' because it really is a sci-fi movie, but it's not. It's not like anything you've seen before. The best way to describe it is it's a war movie that happens to have aliens as the enemy.

I would describe myself as eclectic: Bohemian in thought and conservative in action - or maybe it's the other way around.

And I think the American people look to the leaders to lead. They look to the leaders to take on the big problems. And the president deserves a lot of credit for doing that.

I don't expect people to forget my brash words or deeds. But I ask that they try to remember the actions that I took that were designed to help them.

So many books are designed to help you with your love life spend their time telling you what you can't do. What I love about 'Get The Guy' is it spends the majority of its time telling you what you can do.

The stuff I'm designing, I want my action scenes to be intense.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

I follow my desires, and I'm prepared to take the consequences.

I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

As a player, if a club is desperate to sign you, then you can benefit from that. Desperate clubs are prepared to pay more money; they are prepared to act decisively and play you.

Things are gonna happen in life. Either you are gonna help do something about it or you just gonna let it happen and destroy you.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

Our leadership in D.C. should be bold and determined.

The most important thing about 'Devil May Cry' is that the action itself, there's beauty to it.

It's true that as Mr. Chan makes more American movies - and gets older - we will never again see the kind of fistfight choreography that the star would devote four months to shoot.

When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.

I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.

I'm a real believer in getting on with the job you have - anything that happens in the future is dictated by what you do now.

Process is your friend, but process also dictates what you can do.

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

I loved the 'Die Hard' films growing up and the 'Taken' movies. They're so entertaining, and I enjoy being on the edge of my seat.

'Die Hard' was a really awesome experience, but I was too young to understand what a big film it was.

The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.