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Action Quotes

I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'

Me Wait Action Musicians Luxury You

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

Character Action Think Problem You

There are guys who thrive completely on the action in the ring and see the promotion as a necessary evil, whereas I think it's so much easier to tell people what a tough guy you are, as opposed to backing it up.

People Evil Action Tough Think You

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Myself Action Lose Despair Must

The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.

Hunter S. Thompson

Work Character Action Camera Own

I've always loved the Bond pictures. I have watched every single one. Movies don't get bigger or better than Bond, so I knew this was my opportunity to do a massive action picture with outrageous stunts.

Opportunity Action Bond Loved Better

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

Action Seek Approval Course Decided

Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life.

Life School Parents People Action

With any film, you're doing basically the same thing. You're trying to translate ideas into action.

Ideas Action Doing Trying You Same

I'm an action fanatic.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Charles Horton Cooley

Mind Action Thinking Torture Unless

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

Great Time Moment Me Action Forward

When a sports team is doing well in a city that's going through tough times like New Orleans, like Detroit, it bolsters this real sentiment of 'we can get through this.' And when you have that sentiment, it becomes more than feelings: It's transported into action.

Tough Times Sports City Team Action

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Good Moment Action You Eternity Act

Developing countries can make great strides towards more progressive and effective taxation and spending through action within their own borders. But the damage caused by exemptions, loopholes, and tax havens requires action beyond national borders - it requires international action and cooperation.

Winnie Byanyima

Great Action Cooperation Tax Beyond

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

Henry Mintzberg

Fight Action Done Sometimes Things

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.

Lawrence Kasdan

Opportunity Day Me Looking Action

If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'

Work Money Me Action Choices Better

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Live Science Man Action Mystery

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

Today Day Balance I Am Action End

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

Love Writing Action Motivation Same

Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.

Charles Scott Sherrington

Action Nervous Study Muscles Further

I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.

Jerry Goldsmith

People Small Action Choice Quiet

I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.

Fear Character Animal Action Think

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