All Quotes

Action roles - or any role - should go to the best guy for the job. People obsess about nationality. Hollywood and America might be the hub for pop culture and cinema for the Western world, but that shouldn't suggest that all the roles should go to young American men.
‐‐ Jai Courtney

Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.
‐‐ Clive Owen

Action scenes get me so excited, and my adrenaline starts pumping.
‐‐ Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.
‐‐ Victoria Aveyard

Action shouldn't just be seeing all those crashes. You can blow up a cathedral; next time you blow up the Great Wall of China, and then what? But when you're in love with your characters, the smallest action becomes an important action.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
‐‐ Robert Blair

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
‐‐ Mark Twain

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
‐‐ G. M. Trevelyan

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
‐‐ Jawaharlal Nehru

Action to me is something very fun to shoot.
‐‐ Christopher McQuarrie

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.
‐‐ St. Jerome

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
‐‐ Harold Evans

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
‐‐ Harry S Truman

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Actions have consequences.
‐‐ Tom Cotton

Actions lie louder than words.
‐‐ Bob Wells

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.
‐‐ Bill Owens

Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

Actions speak louder than words. There is a big difference between what people say and what they do. People might tell you they are excited about your new product, but when they are in a buying situation their behaviour might be totally different.
‐‐ Alexander Osterwalder

Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First Lady Michelle Obama's leadership of efforts to end childhood obesity within this generation.
‐‐ Richard Carmona

Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
‐‐ Ramana Maharshi

'Activate Your Goodness' explains how we all have a stake in our collective future, each and every person in their own unique way. As I see it, it is all about personally taking responsibility for our actions, and fully realizing that by thinking good, speaking good and doing good, you can find your place in life.
‐‐ Shari Arison

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
‐‐ Thomas a Kempis

Activating is about changing people's perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for example, the Statue of Liberty. You look at it, and it disappears into the thousands of times you've already seen it.
‐‐ Chris Jordan

Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.
‐‐ John Simon

Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
‐‐ Michel Houellebecq

Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
‐‐ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.
‐‐ Ben Edwards

Activism has been very productive in our society.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci

Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
‐‐ Larry Kramer

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.'
‐‐ Scott Thompson

Activism isn't beautiful and easy, or a bunch of people getting together and picketing; it's a lot more complicated and difficult than that.
‐‐ Matt Bomer

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.
‐‐ Tommy Chong

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.
‐‐ Paul Ryan

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.
‐‐ Ben Edwards

Activists are killed in Mexico.
‐‐ Gloria Trevi

Activists from the Middle East to Asia to the former Soviet states have all been telling me that they suffer from increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.
‐‐ Shoshana Zuboff

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.
‐‐ John George Nicolay

Actona is a healthy company with strong values, very competent management and a solid organisation.
‐‐ Lars Larsen

Actor's life is very long.
‐‐ Jackie Chan

Actors, after all, dream.
‐‐ Nastassja Kinski

Actors always have opinions.
‐‐ Joe Pantoliano

Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.
‐‐ Jon Cryer

Actors always lie about horse-riding, and it ends terribly. I can horse-ride... ish.
‐‐ Tom Mison

Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource.
‐‐ Robert Wilson