Quotes About Action

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

I am pretty sure when Kenneth Branagh came up for 'Thor,' nobody at Marvel thought, 'Yes, that Kenneth Branagh is masculine enough to do action: just look at 'Henry V' and 'The Magic Flute.''

Most of us are cut from the same cloth. We all can be a hero if we choose. And it just isn't that hard.

It's great to play the hero. You get all the good stuff. You're in it all the way through.

Bruce Lee has always been a hero of mine, and the choreography in 'Enter The Dragon' is amazing.

I'm a real-life action hero.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

I just thought, 'I want to be an action hero.'

From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

Legolas is that kind of action elf who pouts a bit, stares off to the distance, and has a couple hero moments, killing with a lethal bow and arrow along the way.

I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.

Most actors are like, 'I want to be more like Marlon Brando.' But when I was a little kid, I just wanted to be an action hero! Then I grew up, and my interests were different.

I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.

When I was doing Bond, I was always being sent scripts to play the derring-do hero, with explosions going on all around.

Comedy always came easier for me. But I would have loved to have been an action hero.

It was never really my choice to be an action heroine.

Young action heroines feel in service of male gaze, rather than being the full complexity of a human being.

Heroism is a matter of choice.

I never looked for trouble, but when it found me, I wouldn't hesitate.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

Action can cure fear and hesitation and doubt.

What I always keep in mind is that we'll take action on things that need to be done, promptly and without hesitation.