Action Heroes Quotes

I can play the leading man. I can play the action hero, maybe in just a different way. I look at it as, you know, if you set your mind to it, you can do it. ~ Verne Troyer

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes. ~ James Mangold

Some days it's a real balancing act to stay alive. Oh, well! I'm off to slay a few more villains. ~ Anthony T. Hincks

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond. ~ Richard Hammond

We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero. ~ Jan De Bont

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. ~ Jean Genet

I don't think I've lost a beat at all. Because of my physique and my look ... I fit in the natural action-hero role. ~ Jose Canseco

I went in right up front and said, This can't be about some guy in bandages. I didn't even want to do a horror movie. I took the concept and made a romantic adventure film. I like action heroes who don't take themselves too seriously. I wanted to make everyone take the mummy seriously, but it couldn't just be a guy in bandages. But the main thing was to build in surprises. That's one of the great things you can do with special effects. ~ Stephen Sommers

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

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men. ~ Katee Sackhoff

When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out. ~ Dolph Lundgren

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean. ~ Jodie Foster

Feeling confronted with the absurdity of life may sometimes nurture a personal satisfaction for those who like to set a paramount task or to create a compassionate mission. In so doing, the seal of absurdity becomes less unbearable, while it confers them a 'Sisyphus' status that transmutes them into heroes of human resilience. ("Sisyphus on the hill.) ~ Erik Pevernagie

It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters ... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade. ~ Joss Whedon

I'll leave you guys to get acquainted. Somebody show Leo to dinner when it's time?"
"I got it," one of the girls said. Nyssa, Leo remembered. She wore camo pants, a tank top that showed off her buff arms, and a red bandanna over her mop of dark hair. Except for the smiley-face Band-Aid on her chin, she looked like one of those female action heroes, like any second she was going to grab a machine gun and start mowing down evil aliens.
"Cool," Leo said. "I always wanted a sister who could beat me up. ~ Rick Riordan

Storyboarded by the West Coast's finest, the ceiling celebrated the exploits of that most durable of action heroes - God. ~ Michael Marshall Smith

When you're stressed out or nervous, the logical side of your brain goes out the window and you have no idea what's happening. But, that is a lot of fun. It feels like you are an action hero. ~ Katia Winter

In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today, ~ Colleen Atwood

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

A dark shadow rose from the depth of the watercourse. Forced to crawl out of the oceans rolling waves, it struggled against the pull of the undertow. Rising, it moved further up the white sandy beach away from the cold water. The creature collapsed onto the cool sand as the crescent moon above shone on his sleek gray skin revealing two immense leather-like wings protruding from his back. Exhaustion clouded his mind.
The darkness of night was soothing, refreshing. Somehow he knew it would bring him strength and sustenance. The creature watched as a great rolling storm cloud sunk into the salty water before him and he tried to remember why he had come. ~ Alaina Stanford

I'm not saying a hunt isn't something we crave, but to a man, we hate to be manipulated. And this is our town, as much as any human's. Our home, and our neighbours and perhaps even our friends. You fall into the trap of thinking as Fallon does, that there are only heroes and villains, monsters and victims, and nothing between. We all stand in that space, crossing the line to one side, then the other. Even you. ~ Rachel Caine

Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test. ~ Wilfrid Sheed

It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it. ~ George Eliot

If someone said, "Here, you have your pick, you can do either a musical, Moulin Rouge type of movie, where you sing and dance, or an action movie, or a Shakespearian or Elizabethan movie," I would definitely love to do a movie that was based on a musical, where I would get to sing, dance and act, all at the same time. ~ Megalyn Echikunwoke

Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure and action, but he also develops the characters with satisfying depth. I thoroughly enjoyed this rip-roaring read, and I can hardly wait for the next book. ~ Catherine Asaro

I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination. ~ Christina Milian

It made a good daydream, but I've learned that if you want dreams to come true, you have to take action. ~ Peg Kehret

If there is an action scene, I want to do everything myself. ~ Hiroyuki Sanada

What would the world look like if we asked ourselves the following more often; are our actions helping others find a way to feel more freer, more dignified and more beautiful? ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance. ~ May Sarton

Bold action and bold manner are not the same. ~ Madeline Miller

Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death. ~ Lynn Blackmar

Sometimes we feel that one individual's action is very insignificant. Then we think, of course, that effects should come from channeling or from a unifying movement. But the movement of the society, community or group of people means joining individuals. Society means a collection of individuals, so that initiative must come from individuals. Unless each individual develops a sense of responsibility, the whole community cannot move. So therefore, it is very essential that we should not feel that individual effort is meaningless- you should not feel that way. We should make an effort. ~ Dalai Lama

To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges. ~ Paulo Coelho

But wasn't my hero brave, like all heroes in every story I'd ever heard? ~ Katy Grant

Be strong. Overflow with emotional and intellectual energy, and you will spread your intelligence, your love, your energy of action broadcast among others! This is what all moral teaching comes to. ~ Pyotr Kropotkin

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us. ~ Bobby Seale

She stopped over the ledge where he worked and she stood watching him openly. When he raised his head, she did not turn away. Her glance told him that she knew the meaning of her action, but did not respect him enough to conceal it. His glance told her only that he had expected her to come. ~ Ayn Rand

Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads. ~ Joan Lindsay

In all truth might it be said that beauty is the unique aliment of our soul, for in all places does it search for beauty, and it perishes not of hunger even in the most degraded of lives. For indeed nothing of beauty can pass by and be altogether unperceived. Perhaps does it never pass by save only in our unconsciousness, but its action is no less puissant in gloom of night than by light of day; the joy it procures may be less tangible, but other difference there is none. ~ Maurice Maeterlinck

Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves. ~ Myles Horton

Living is a creative and active process of diligent learning that entails industrious human action, attentive awareness, and thoughtful reflection. Learning is one facet of human beings innate capacity that can provide a sense of worthiness to human life. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Has the world run dry of warriors?' She asked. 'All out of brave lords? Are they sending out maidens these days to do the work of heroes?'
'There were no heroes,' said Vasya between her teeth. 'There was only me. ~ Katherine Arden

Always, in every human action, there are leaders. ~ Vicente Fox

There is always more profit and more consolation in the public Offices of the Church than in private acts of devotion, God having willed to give the preference to communion in prayer over all individual action. ~ Francis De Sales

There is power in everything you say to lift you up or pull you down. There is power in everything you do to reward you or penalize you. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity. ~ Ernst Toller

It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable. ~ Andrew Cohen

Thinking drives behaviors. Behaviors drive action. Action drives results. No tool can fix poor thinking. ~ Jamie Flinchbaugh

When you assume you make a you-know-what out of U and me. Yep, so let's stop assuming so much. We are often quick to explain details to strangers, who we understand might not be reading our minds, but we often assume that those people closest to us, those who share our household such as spouses, children parents and siblings, can read our minds. And we get upset with them when they don't go figure.
I wonder how many angry words are directed not at an action or inaction as would at first appear, but simply at the fact that somebody did not read our minds.
So let's give those people we care most about the benefit of the doubt and do a little less assuming and a little more explaining. ~ David Leonhardt

Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As his war-strewn presidency shows, George Bush knows nothing about ahimsa and non-violence. Bush should reconsider this cynical, disrespectful display of symbolism. ~ Kevin Martin

Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action ~ Brendan Brazier