Top 95 Action Movies Quotes

I’m not a fan of action movies.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

I’ve always loved action movies. The first films I fell in love with were ‘Star Wars’ and Steven Spielberg films.

Most people think that action movies are difficult and comedies are easy, but it’s actually the opposite. Comedy can be a lot of hard work too.

Jason Statham is one of my favorites. I’ve watched basically every single one of his action movies, and they’re all creative.

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That’s hung around for me.

I would like to be in tons of different types of movies and do different things. I like action movies, and with ‘Mr. Peabody and Sherman’, I got to see a historical movie, too.

‘A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints’ was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I’d be happy not to do them if there are better roles.

I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff, too,’ which is what happened when we did ‘Charlie’s Angels’.

I think action movies bring more excitement than tears, but I always want to take it to another level. I mean, I think if one appreciates anything in life to a certain degree, it could possibly bring tears to your eyes.

We watched a lot of Hong Kong action movies in my house when I was growing up.

Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I’m asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids love action movies with comedy, Jackie Chan and all that.

I used to watch a lot of action movies and I felt this country loves action.

I like all action movies, but the ones with Jason Statham are always my favorite.

I’d love to be in action movies. I’ve been trying to convince people. I don’t think it’s anything physical holding me back. I think it’s a general vibe thing that’s holding me back. I don’t project action confidence, maybe.

I’ve done a lot of action movies, and there has to be a certain amount of emotion in the actual performing of the stunt. It doesn’t have to be any particular emotion, but there has to be some life to it, and that’s not so easy.

Whether I’m acting or making it, at the end of the day it’s telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it – the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

I think that everyone would agree that something that Marvel has done brilliantly is weave comedy into all of their action movies.

I get bored watching action movies.

I don’t think action alone is enough to sustain a film franchise. There are tons of action movies out there that come and go and people don’t care about.

I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

I would just love to do something where I’d have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now.

I like movies, action movies. I definitely would be an actor in Hollywood.

There’s an unfair position that women are sometimes put in, in the context of superhero movies and action movies, where at once they have to be very strong and fierce but also sexy.

There are a lot of big action movies that we’ve worked on where the attitude has been, ‘Let’s just get through this scene.’ Then you get those jumpy, what-were-they-thinking action sequences.

One of the tricky things about sort of larger, comic-book action movies is that the scale is so big that they have to save the world at the end of every movie, and so at the end of each of the films, either Chicago or New York end up getting obliterated.

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn’t have to be white, and the other one doesn’t have to be the ethnic sidekick. We’re way over that. And I think it’s happening in society, too.

My wife always hates when I go, ‘I just don’t love female action movies.’ I don’t know why. I’ll watch them, but I don’t run to go and see them.

I love action movies.

I love movies, of course. ‘Terminator 3’ and ‘Bad Boys II’ – lots of action. Sports movies, action movies, comedies – I’ll go to those, but not ‘las de amor.’ Not romance. It’s not that I don’t like love, but on the screen it bores me.

One of my goals is definitely break into film, and I want to do action movies as well.

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

I don’t think I am an action movie star now; I’ve just done a couple of action movies! I’m just so respectful of the people that have come before me and the hard work they’ve put in.

With action movies, that’s just fun stuff for me. That’s me being a kid again. Same with ‘The Best of Me’ and these romantic dramas. It’s such a freedom from reality and social constructions. You get to just have fun and play and be in a movie.

I think what’s dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, ‘Well, I can totally handle myself now.’ But if my opponent didn’t know the other half of the routine, I don’t know how well I’d do.

I’ve always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.

I’m shockingly terrible at action movies.

I don’t think people are experiencing superhero fatigue. Do you hear people complaining that there are too many action movies? I think it’s good entertainment.

Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

I really like action movies. The ‘Die Hard’ franchise. And the ‘Bourne’ movies.

I’ve got more bruises and scars on my legs than should be there. And I’m a physical person. That’s why I like action movies. I like to get real into it all and get real down and dirty.

Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn’t suit my taste, so I thought, ‘OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.’ And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.

I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.

I think it’s too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man… there is a tradition in the most simplistic of action movies for there to be some horrible villain.

Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he’s done some good action movies too.

When I first came to Hollywood to make ‘Mortal Kombat’ back in the day, there was this rule that female-led action movies don’t work and American studios didn’t want to make them.

Everyone remembers the pop-quiz hotshot bit from ‘Speed’ because it’s extremely funny, and it’s really smart and really witty. And the notion that action movies can have dialogue that pops just as well as the explosions is something that I hope more people continue to remember.

I can’t impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

I always wanted to make big action movies as a kid, and that was my dream. In a way, ‘Swingers’ was the thing I suffered through the most doing because of all that dialog, so I could eventually be allowed to do a big dumb action movie, honestly.

Some of the top grossing movies now are children’s animated features, they’re making more money than action movies. And you’d never find a Hollywood A-lister years ago doing voice-overs for those films and they do now. You know why? Because everybody’s got a price.

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

I like action movies! Action movies are awesome.

It’s always been the genres that fascinated me. I think great action movies and great thrillers are transformative.

I love doing action and stuff; the problem is usually action movies are not that interesting. Also as I get older I feel like there’s less opportunities for me.

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.

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

I grew up on ’80s action movies… Jean Claude Van Damme, Schwarzenegger, Stallone… If there were ever some opportunity to do that, it’d be great.

I love the action movies. I would love to be part of those.

We haven’t done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the ’90s, but they failed.

You’ve got all these people making action movies, and they’ve never been in a life-or-death situation.