Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.
I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.
Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.
I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.
I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.
I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.
[pulling out his pump-action shotgun] Hicks: I like to keep this handy... for close encounters. Frost: I heard *that.*
Margie MacDougall: 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring... nothin'... no action... dullsville!
Riggan: [as Birdman] People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical bullshit.
Buddy Bizarre: Action! Oh, wait till I get out! Wait till I get out!
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'
When some people get angry, they turn into victims, but when I get angry, I turn to action.
Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don't film; it can be a stiff move.
Self distrust is good, but only if it leads to trust in God. Otherwise it ends as spiritual paralysis, inability and unwillingness to undertake any course of action.
Be sure to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions." ( , May 10, 1886)
Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.
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.
You're a survivor because everyday you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness.
True courage is not the absence of fear; it is refusing to let fear control your actions. ~ from the book "Do Hard Things
