Top 50 Action Film Quotes

It was a dream of mine to be in an action film.

Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible.

People assume that ‘The Expendables’ is old school, but it’s only old school because that’s the way I know how to make an action film. It’s pretty real.

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don’t really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

I love what I did in ‘Death Sentence,’ but that was a low budget action film.

My life isn’t just one genre. It’s a romance one minute, an action movie the next – it’s actually rarely, rarely an action film, to be frank.

In an action film you act in the action. If it’s a dramatic film you act in the drama.

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

If you look at my career, I have already proved that after a big action film like ‘Chatrapati,’ I could do a cool film like ‘Darling.’

If you’re not bruised up, then you’re not doing an action film in a real way.

People don’t want to always see a comedy or an action film. If the film in a particular genre is made well, then it will see its share of success.

A woman director is not obliged to make a feminist film. She can make what she wants, a thriller, an action film, a comedy, or whatever, but hopefully, she will be informed by a gaze that is female.

I would like to do an action film, and in which I am doing the action. I don’t want to be a damsel in distress. I want to be a superhero. I would love to do that.

I want to play a character that would require a lot of special training, like in a full-fledged action film.

You get dinged for wanting to do a comedy, then wanting to do a big-budget action film, and then wanting to do an indie. But you can’t let other people trying to label you get in the way of trying to do something artistically.

I see the first ‘Bourne’ movie as really kind of a fulcrum in changing the modern action film, where things are really gritty and really character-driven. Think about how the entire Bond franchise was completely radicalized by Bourne.

I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film – now that’s a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it’s just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

The first one I did was an action film with Sammo Hung and George Lam, but I had the usual female role for that time: you know, damsel in distress, rescued by the hero.

I’ll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.

I’d like to do an action film, a full-on comedy film, family dramas and a soulful romantic film.

At least in making an action film, there’s always going to be someone who wants to see a car chase. Even if a lot of the people don’t like it, there will be a lot of people that do. But bad comedy is just garbage.

I always wanted to do some sort of action film – even a superhero movie – and when ‘Lucy’ came out, I was like, ‘That’s what I want to do.’

I’m a big movie fan. After a show, if I’m on the bus or a plane, it’s often hard to get to sleep, so I’ll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

There’s good art and there’s bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it’s possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.

I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America’s action film.

Eventually, in ’84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars – with American actors that was shot in English – that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.

I think there were some dubious feelings about it, that the first ‘Scarface’ would not be surpassed by the second ‘Scarface.’ We were wrong; it surpassed it. The acting talent, the cinematography – we were propelled into a real class action film. Long after I kick the bucket, it’ll be played.

An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.

I have a real taste for doing action roles. I starred in a movie called ‘Blast,’ which was my first action film, and I loved the fighting – I think I’ve got the build, the attitude and the look for it.

I just have more fun when I get to try new things – and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

I would say that my favorite action film is the ‘Die Hard’s. They’re kind of perfect, I think.

I am learning aerobics and gymnastics, so I would love to do an action film.

I’d love to continue my career in Hollywood – I’d love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.

Considering ‘Kaante’ is an action film, its music is brilliant.

It’s never fun having to bulk up for a job on an action film, then lose weight for another role. I don’t actually mind working out, but it’s the diet: I’m half-French, so I love my food, and boiled chicken breast for breakfast is not my idea of a good meal.

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

Personally, I always wanted to do a rom-com or an action film.

I don’t think I’ve ever been called up for an action film with a male lead – which is a shame. I’d love to take on Bond.

I want to do roles that provoke us to think differently or realise ourselves in a new light. Characters of women who have an interesting story to tell. I’d love to do a period film, an action film, a character study.

I’d like to do an action film like Angelina Jolie’s ‘Salt.’

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It’s about elephants, and doesn’t have any people in it. It will be a live action film – I don’t know how much I can say about it, since I still don’t know too much about it.

I’m doing something called ‘Olivia Twisted,’ that will start next year. There may be something in between, but right now, that’s the one that I’m slated to do next year. That’s a very ultra-modern version of ‘Oliver Twist,’ and it’s female-driven. It’s an action film, and it’s kind of dark and gritty.

The whole idea of making ‘James’ was to make an action film in the style of the 1970s and ’80s.

I think there’s a time and place to watch an independent film, or catch up on a French action film on your laptop, or Netflix it, or download it, or watch it on-demand. But I think we also have to maintain the sacredness of the movie theatre as church – especially with event screenings.

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.

What makes ‘Pootie Tang’ the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it’s a joke action film. It slides through enough African-American pop culture signifiers to raise laughs out of those who will appreciate the references; it revels in more cheese per square inch than a soul food diner.

My dad wants me to do action. Every time I go home, he asks me if I’m doing an action film or not, because then he wants us to do it together.

I was keen to direct an action film, and when Reliance approached me for the remake of ‘Singham,’ I saw an opportunity to return to my first love.