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Action Quotes

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

Action Movies Boring Why Years Made

I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like 'Bourne.'

Action Want Successful Like Matt

Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

Patrick Whitesell

Adventure Action Comedy Go Movies

I have two dream roles: One would be a biopic of someone I admire and respect and the other one would be some sort of action drama film similar to a 'Bourne Identity.' I just really want to do an intelligent action drama film.

Respect Identity Action Someone Want

I like action movies! Action movies are awesome.

Action Movies Awesome Like

When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.

Myself Action Look Forget Sometimes

During a time of war, we ask our troops to give their best even to the point of sacrificing their own lives. When compared against that, how much of a sacrifice is it for a president to engage in a possibly contentious debate with Congress about whether military action is a good idea?

Good Time Best Sacrifice War Action

The thing that I like about action sequences is that if they're done well, you get to know more about the character in those few minutes than you do through 10 minutes of exposition.

Character Action You Know Done More

Edgar Rice Burroughs taught me pace and gave me a sense of action and adventure.

Joe R. Lansdale

Adventure Me Action Rice Sense Pace

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness Action Always Without May

Maryland is among the nation's most vulnerable states to the effects of sea level rise from climate change, and we are taking strong action to reduce carbon pollution.

Martin O'Malley

Change Sea Action Strong Rise Level

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

Men Action Act Us Move Tactics

You'll go see a movie like 'Matrix 2,' and the car chase goes on and on and on and on. They had all the money in the world and all the time in the world. It doesn't make it an any better action sequence.

Car Time Money World Action Better

What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.

Character Action Distance Mood Level

All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that's what we call 'the plot'.

Margaret Atwood

Time People Moving Action Place

Working for the 'Miami Herald' in 1972, I covered street action for both the Republican and Democratic national conventions in Miami and saw probably the most violent conventions ever - more violent than even 1968 in Chicago.

Action Miami Chicago Street More

Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.

Action Done Actor Little Film Tiny

I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A., and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries!

Live New York People City Action

I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.

Me Mom Growing Up Action Think She

Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films.

David Dastmalchian

Writing Action Quiet Want Write

My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: 'Yeah, why not?' I hadn't watched it, to be honest, but I'd seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.

Joanne Froggatt

Family Good Great Fun Action Hood

I always wanted to write a book. Not a romance novel. Maybe a crime thriller. Something with action. Maybe that will happen some day.

Becky Sauerbrunn

Day Action Book Crime Will Write

By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame - we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi taught us how to go beyond thinking and action in order to grow from within.

Beach Looking Action Thinking Grow

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Work Wisdom Heart Great Action Head

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