Quotes About Action

Set it Off' is my favorite movie of all time.

So my favorite part of the industry was always the drama, the trash-talk, all that kind of stuff. And if you can throw in hard-hitting action on the back end of that, that's amazing.

My favorite show from the '60s was 'Combat.' And maybe 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'

I love finding balance. My favorite thing to do is action-driven, emotionally-charged scenes.

Fear nothing; attack everything.

Don't do anything for fear, because fear will never do anything for you.

Every time I feel fearful of something now, I do it.

Feature films seem geared toward very large budgets, action, broad comedy. That seems to dominate all year where it used to be relegated to summer.

I would love to do some type of action feature. That's my goal. A really cool, Transformers-type feature would be awesome.

Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.

I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go', and I went.

I just try to see what happens when you put your feet on the accelerator.

But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.

Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.

I have done what I felt to be my duty.

For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.

Going to school and learning feminism is one thing and living feminism is another.

There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I'm bringing all of that to an action movie.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

I was a stuntman for over fifteen years.

We bring the fight to the enemy so that they don't bring it to us.

You always start a fight scene or an action scene with, 'What are we learning about this character at the moment, and how are we gonna arc him or her in the next three minutes,' and it's no different with 'Deadpool' or 'Atomic Blonde' or 'John Wick.'

Choreographing a fight scene is telling a little story. You learn a lot about the characters involved.

I am a fighter. I appeal to all the women in the world. Look around, speak up.