I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I’m a character actor.
What we need is congressional action to establish a federal principle of fiduciary duty – encapsulated by the phrase ‘no man can serve two masters.’
I’m an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don’t like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.
You get better by playing, honestly. That’s where you develop as a player is to play through mistakes in game action.
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
Once the director calls for action, we act; we stop when he says ‘Cut.’ It is sort of like meditation – unknowingly, you are moving out of yourself, becoming someone else. That is why I consider acting a form of meditation.
Have a bias toward action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
If a man’s free will to adopt ideas and values is inalienable, his freedom of action – his freedom to put these ideas into effect in the world – is not in such a fortunate condition.
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.
James McAvoy is not an action star.
There’s action only if there is danger.
Action expresses priorities.
The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development.
Religion is simply one of a multitude of factors – economic political, cultural, social, tribal, racial – which shape and drive human action and reaction and often is the least important of those factors.
Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member’s freedom of thought and action.
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
People would come to me and say, ‘Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?’ At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie.
I don’t want to do an action movie, because I’ve acted in them, and they’re so boring to do, because they’re so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?
We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.
The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
I’d like to be in an action movie.
Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone’s thoughts and take a whole trip down someone’s ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they’re in, but you can’t really do that in film.
Thought is more than a right – it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.
In ‘Vagabond,’ I’m acting like a gangster; it’s very tough. I have to use my body for action scenes, and there is nothing gentlemanly about this character at all.
Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation – not where the action is taking place, but where it’s going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they’re going to be.
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
Speech is the mirror of action.
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
I like to treat paint as material – to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I also compare it to paint effects found on the streets. This approach is superimposed on a sculptural surface that is also ‘painterly.’
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity.
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
Action makes more fortune than caution.
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.
When politicians send their thoughts and prayers with no action, we say, ‘No more.’
Nothing can bring my Jordan back but I have learned to channel my grief into action to honor my son.
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.
Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
I loved ‘Life is Beautiful’ and action films are great, like ‘Die Hard.’ My favourite is the mob film – ‘Goodfellas,’ ‘The Godfather,’ ‘Once Upon a Time In America,’ anything with Robert De Niro in it.
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.
It’s a controlling thing on stage – you’re directing the action, getting people to play their role. In real life, I take being kind and nice seriously, so the last thing I’d ever want to be is that weird, controlling, manipulative character.
You’re living your life the entire time in both worlds – it’s not like they say, ‘Action’ and you’re like, ‘Here we go, we’re in this thing,’ because that’s where bad acting comes from.
Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
With devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself.
When they say ‘action,’ I am into it completely and forget everything around. When they say ‘cut,’ I am back to myself.
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
Black Lives Matter was created as a response to state violence and anti-black racism and a call to action for those who want to fight it and build a world where black lives do, in fact, matter.
Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
