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“I feel the need... the need for speed.”

Author:Tom Cruise

“As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote”

“A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.”

“There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I'm bringing all of that to an action movie.”

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Author:Wesley Snipes

“What we got here is a failure to communicate.”

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Author:Paul Newman

“I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?”

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Author:Tony Goldwyn

“I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.”

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Author:Morris Chestnut

“I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy I wanna scare people.”

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Author:Richard Schiff

“I'm gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. To the blood bank!”

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Author:Steven Seagal

“I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.”

“Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.”

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Author:John McTiernan

“I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.”

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Author:Catherine Deneuve

“I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.”

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Author:Christopher Lambert

“Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie.”

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Author:Robert Mark Kamen

“We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.”

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Author:Roger Ebert

“Sexcastle is a perfect mix of homage and comedy, action and irony, loving tribute and hilarious send-up of the great, good, and ungodly-bad action movies of the '80s. I don't remember the last time a debut book hit me this hard. Literally, this book punched me in the face. It's THAT mean.”

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Author:Matt Fraction

“When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice.”

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Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“I don’t know if I’d do an action movie because I don’t know if I could keep a straight face honestly, I just think it’s so silly. Like I love watching them but I can’t imagine me doing one. Actually, you know what I’ve done, just for fun because I didn’t think there was any way that I could be in a superhero movie, so I’ve done a scene in the new “Thor” movie, just for that. I just do like one scene, which was quite fun.”

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Author:Chris O'Dowd

“If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.”

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Author:Adam McKay

“It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.”

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Author:Emma Thompson

“I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions.”

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Author:Devon Sawa

“I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.”

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Author:Will Patton

“They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time. The gap widened between the beauty, the seriousness of the work, and what it has become is beyond me. This level of marketing reduces to nothing the aesthetic and philosophical significance of this work.”

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Author:Christopher Tolkien

“They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film.”

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Author:Christopher Tolkien

“In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.”

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Author:Channing Tatum

“A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.”

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Author:Channing Tatum

“Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.”

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Author:Shane Black

“I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.”

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Author:Shane Black

“An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual bringing together of all the separate threads of the plot. To see all of it coming together slowly is very rewarding for the audience.”

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Author:Shane Black

“I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.”

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Author:Kate Beckinsale

“Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.”

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Author:Asia Argento

“I was made for action movies.”

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Author:Asia Argento

“I love doing action and stuff; the problem is usually action movies are not that interesting. Also as I get older I feel like there's less opportunities for me.”

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Author:Willem Dafoe

“I also love horror movies; I like me a big Peter Berg action movie. I'm a movie lover in general.”

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Author:Jenna Fischer

“I like action movies! Action movies are awesome.”

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Author:Mackenzie Foy

“I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.”

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Author:Mark-Paul Gosselaar

“One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love to do a Lara Croft type of thing that's really physical and tough. I want to have a gun and do martial arts. I would love to get paid to get into the best shape of my life.”

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Author:Megalyn Echikunwoke

“Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.”

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Author:Jessica Hagedorn

“One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There's an emphasis on repartee and wit.”

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Author:Rebecca Hall

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