Quotes About Action

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats, like small or big, or quiet or expansive. It's all just one loud shout.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.

Some athletes feel they have to show they're confident and talk about what they're going to achieve. I don't think there's anything wrong with just quietly believing in yourself and just getting on with it. You don't have to talk about it all the time; you want your performances to show for it.

I wanted to join the Army, but my eyesight wasn't good, so I quit school and my job to just focus on fighting. I didn't want to just get deployed. I wanted to get in on the action.

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

I think what I'd love to see... I love muscular projects. I love the world of... I've worked in the action space quite a bit.

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

I played number 6 in rugby league so I had the ball quite a lot. I tried to make the plays, so you are in the action.

I've done what people have been urging me to do for quite some time. I have finally gagged Piers Morgan.

It's embarrassing to quote Gandhi or something, but being the change you want to see in the world is pretty powerful.

You know the famous quote, sometimes you have to be ready so you don't have to get ready. I do a lot of things that, it's like, off the camera, that a lot of people don't see me do.

Beautiful things can happen when you act intuitively and instinctively in a moment of anxiety and do something radical.

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

Who do you want to be: the radical man who can make a choice in one second, or the man who never takes decisions? That's the question: who's the best? Actually, there is no best.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

I wasn't one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a film director. I wanted to make big action movies. I loved movies like 'Die Hard,' 'Predator,' 'Aliens,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

The kind of roles that Harrison Ford plays are what really interest me, like 'Indiana Jones' and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.

I was raised on Bruce Lee.