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It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

Quotes by Stanley Milgram

I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those.

Quotes by Stanley Clarke

Frankly, you cannot match the action in a Bond or a Bourne film. Forget budgets, it needs an expertise which I probably lacked.

Quotes by Sriram Raghavan

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

Quotes by St. Jerome

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

Quotes by St. Jerome

I've never done an action show, really. On 'Jericho,' other people got to ride horses and shoot guns, but I never did.

Quotes by Sprague Grayden

The coaches can only put us in the right position, but it's up to the players to take the action.

Quotes by Spencer Paysinger

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

Quotes by Sonny Chiba

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the...

Quotes by Sonia Sotomayor

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so...

Quotes by Sonia Sotomayor

Speech is the mirror of action.

Quotes by Solon

I grip very close to the butt of the racket. This allows me to get a lot of wrist action to create more spin and whip.

Quotes by Sloane Stephens

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

Quotes by Simon Sinek

I'm like a geek that grew up playing with Star Wars toys and creating action sequences, essentially, with toys.

Quotes by Simon Kinberg

Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest...

Quotes by Simon Mainwaring

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

Quotes by Shoshana Zuboff

Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.

Quotes by Shiv Khera

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.

Quotes by Sherwood Boehlert

If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.

Quotes by Shawn Levy

Following sporadic reports of intelligence officials misleading Congress about surveilling U.S. citizens - even spying on journalists and political figures and their staffs - there was a series of red flags in 2016 and 2017 that should have drawn attention...

Quotes by Sharyl Attkisson

Frequently Asked Questions

Did these speakers plan on doing action roles?
Not really. One admits, "I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened," while another explains they "didn't go into this business to do action" because of a classical-theater background, yet found they were "good at kicking and punching."
Is there a quote about being underrepresented in action roles?
Yes — one speaker reflects on how rare their combination of background is in the genre, noting there are "so few guys who do action and do it well," and even fewer with classical-theater training. For more on standing out through personal traits, see our Character quotes.
Do any of these quotes contrast action with thinking?
One does, memorably: "What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action." It draws a sharp line between ideas and actually doing something.
Is classical training mentioned as useful for action work?
Yes — one speaker points to their "classical-theater training" as something they bring into action work, even though it's not the most obvious background for the genre. For more on playful ways of exploring a theme, check out our Rhymes collection.
Where can I find more quotes about living with purpose and action?
Our Life quotes explore that same idea of doing versus just thinking, and our Always quotes are worth a look too.

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