Quotes About Action

I'm very much a get up and go kind of girl. So just the one alarm for me, never hit snooze!

When something hits you, you better go with it.

ACT UP was trying to explain to Americans that AIDS could affect all of us: that health care that ended once your disease was expensive could affect more than gay men with HIV or AIDS. We were trying to tell them about the future - a future they didn't yet see and would be forced to accept if they failed to act.

I don't consider roles like in 'Die Hard' what I do. This is like a hobby. It's fun. I had a good time. And I love being in a movie that people actually go see. But it's about things getting blown up. It's not about great character development.

If I can do something about it and won't because I want to hog the limelight, then I really have no right to talk about women's empowerment.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Bring the fights on. If I'm going to be the champ, I gotta beat everyone anyway, so what does sitting and waiting and holding my position do?

Dreams grow holy put in action.

If you're not in the game, you can't hit a home run.

Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.

The goal, being bold about it, is to stop homelessness in Manchester. I've been in this community for 11 years now - my wife Carla is from Manchester, the kids are Mancs, born and bred - so homelessness is not an issue we can shy away from.

I'll spend time playing 'Call of Duty' and 'Medal of Honor.'

With 'Shinobi,' we hope to make a film that honors the essence of the games.

In 'Robin Hood,' I did quarterstaff fighting.

If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.

I love to hoop and you can never get better just by sitting on the bench.

I don't believe in hope. I believe in action, if I'm an apostle of anything: There are always going to be complications, but to a large degree, everything is in your hands.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do.

People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children 'school-striking,' and they say, 'Oh the children are going to save us.' But no, we aren't. We are too young to be able to do that. We don't have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.

Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.

Spend not on hopes.

It's like, you're being given a great opportunity, so take the bull by the horns, do your work and come in here and perform.

You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.