A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.
He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.
I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
When you take action-think. When you fail-think. When you are in doubt-think. When you have lost your way-think. You are nothing but your thoughts.
Happiness is there when you have great imagination and vision, when you take relentless action and love your creation.
You can't make every wrong decision right but you can stop deciding to take another wrong action.
What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.
We know that Medicare is set to go bankrupt in 2024 with no action, and social security is set to be insolvent by 2037.
There is a universal truth that all successful people know: Nothing is ever done until you take action.
There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
I still fall asleep with the TV on, because I'm used to falling asleep with people yelling 'Action!' and 'Cut!'
'The Authority,' by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, really pioneered the widescreen, action-packed style of storytelling.
The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on.
The athletes are still out competing the same as a Division I team, and I think we've done a good job of creating an atmosphere where they're responsible for their actions and their play.
Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.
Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.
