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I'm like a prize fighter. When I'm not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next performance.

Quotes by Alice Ripley

With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.

Quotes by Alice Ripley

I think action, as a genre, is every actor's dream.

Quotes by Ali Fazal

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action.

Quotes by Alexis Herman

When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.

Quotes by Alexander Skarsgard

I'm really interested in passivity as a type of action - sort of allowing the situation to change you, choosing to give in being an act of agency rather than an act of submission.

Quotes by Alexandra Kleeman

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

Quotes by Alexander Mackenzie

Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.

Quotes by Alexander Haig

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

Quotes by Alexa Chung

At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not be the biggest corporation in the world, or the most profitable, but somehow it both mirrors and leads...

Quotes by Alex Berenson

It's easy for a multi-billion company like WWE - it's for a company like that to hire anyone. So I'm glad Bobby Lashley is back in action with that company, 'cause he's a fantastic guy.

Quotes by Alberto Del Rio

Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the...

Quotes by Albert Claude

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Albert Einstein

I love staging action and wide-shots, not necessarily going to close-ups.

Quotes by Alan Taylor

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.

Quotes by Alan Tudyk

Where you really get in trouble is if the market is dropping and the economy's slowing down and you don't take action.

Quotes by Alan Mulally

Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very...

Quotes by Alan Cumming

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.

Quotes by Alan Dershowitz

'The Levanter' features some of the strongest action scenes to be found in Ambler - who can, in some of his fiction, stay in one place for a whole novel.

Quotes by Alan Furst

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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