All Quotes

Acting wasn't what I wanted to do forever. I wanted a home, and I wanted children.
‐‐ Susan Kohner

Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life.
‐‐ Devon Werkheiser

Acting-wise, I did a web series. I play a music agent in a series called 'Keeping Up with the Downs.'
‐‐ James Michael Tyler

Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.
‐‐ David Sutcliffe

Acting-wise, I'm way more comfortable finding out new things about the actor in me and RJ as a person. There's a lot of new nuggets that I can dip in the sauce.
‐‐ RJ Cyler

Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.
‐‐ Liam Neeson

Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.
‐‐ Dean Cain

Acting with someone else, I can't tell how good they are because if I'm doing my job right, I'm just fully invested in everything that person's saying.
‐‐ Matt McGorry

Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes - and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.
‐‐ Brandon Lee

Action alone doesn't work in Germany - you need an emotional element to the story.
‐‐ Til Schweiger

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
‐‐ Henri Frederic Amiel

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
‐‐ Bruce Barton

Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.
‐‐ Donnie Yen

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.
‐‐ Jason Statham

Action conquers fear.
‐‐ Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
‐‐ Douglas Horton

Action expresses priorities.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
‐‐ Barry Eisler

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.
‐‐ Steven Seagal

Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set up a shot, then you go out for a few minutes or an hour of endurance testing.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'
‐‐ Nick Nolte

Action films unfortunately don't let you spend a lot of time sitting. So you don't have much time to create something indelible or unique.
‐‐ Chris Pine

Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
‐‐ Jane Addams

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
‐‐ Norman Vincent Peale

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

Action is character.
‐‐ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
‐‐ Henri Frederic Amiel

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.
‐‐ Sonny Chiba

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
‐‐ Ross Perot

Action is just one of my skills.
‐‐ Hiroyuki Sanada

Action is my first love. When I first started writing, my favorite movies were 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and 'Aliens', and that sort of thing.
‐‐ David Leslie Johnson

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.
‐‐ Paul Greengrass

Action is the antidote to despair.
‐‐ Joan Baez

Action is the foundational key to all success.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
‐‐ Robert South

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
‐‐ Dean Inge

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
‐‐ Napoleon Hill

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
‐‐ Jawaharlal Nehru

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.
‐‐ Keith Henson

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
‐‐ Johann Kaspar Lavater

Action makes more fortune than caution.
‐‐ Charlotte Whitton

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

Action movies today are going to so fast, you can't say you're going to do everything faster and faster.
‐‐ Olivier Megaton

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.
‐‐ Nora Roberts