An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me do. I think that's easy for me.
We should not be making near-term decisions with long-term consequences without robustly debating these questions and fully considering the substantial and unpredictable risks of these actions.
One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.
All I want to do is a rom-com, but you know, people see me as an action person because the first movie that was seen by a lot of the public would be 'Hitman.'
Success is 3Ms: Your vision produces the Map; your actions produce the Motion; your persistence produces Monetary rewards.
So we are disappointed that some of our closest allies, including Canada, have not agreed with us on the urgent need for this military action against Iraq.
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.
Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
As soon as I had proved this and, of course, also the normal pointing action and reactions in all other extremities and joints, I stopped the experiment.
I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.
A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.
But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.
...learning always occurs in a context of taking action, and they value engagement and experience as the most effective strategies for deep learning.
