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“An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.”

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Author:Donnie Yen

“I think action movies bring more excitement than tears, but I always want to take it to another level. I mean I think if one appreciates anything in life to a certain degree, it could possibly bring tears to your eyes.”

Ifs Thinking Want Mean Eye Action Certain Levels Tears Degrees Appreciate Excitement Action Movie Anything In Life

Author:Donnie Yen

“Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.”

Want Feels Art Ends Stories Action Acting Audience Particular Drama Scene Shots The End Of The Day Action Movie

Author:Donnie Yen

“When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.”

Looks Sometimes Action Actors Forget Audience Type

Author:Donnie Yen

“You're using such different muscles and you rely on physicality in live action, but in animation, you totally throw that out the window. But somehow, they're both as satisfying.”

Different Action Window Rely Muscles Satisfying Animation Physicality

Author:Reid Scott

“No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire race for the death of Christ anymore than the actions of Mussolini condemn all Italians, or the heinous crimes of Stalin condemn all Russians.”

People Action Christ Race Crime Scene Judgment Standing Heinous Crimes

Author:Jim Caviezel

“I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly masculine and things like that so Id love to find - and real too. Not necessarily the superhero perfect archetype of what an action hero is represented as a lot of times. I would love to find that kind of action heroine role to play.”

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Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“They say actions speak louder than words, but actions dont speak. People speak, and people are loud.”

People Action Speak Loud Actions Speak Louder Than Words Actions Speak Louder

Author:Jennette McCurdy

“There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.”

Action Pay Reactions Our Actions

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.”

Action Lying Force Issues Rocks Products Depth Primitive Petroleum Distillation

Author:Alexander von Humboldt

“The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.”

Life Action Acting Hard Work Return Generosity Generous Evident Reap

Author:Francesco Guicciardini

“I like action-adventure movies.”

Action Adventure

Author:Ian Ziering

“I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.”

Ifs Real Action Stuff Acting Drama Independent Intense

Author:Vinnie Jones

“There's good action stars. I'm a bad-guy action star. What disappoints me is when you all of a sudden you get a good action star and then he wants to play a comedy with kids, you know? That upsets me, and that's not being true to your fans.”

Knows Want Play Kids Action Guy Stars Comedy Fans Being True Upset Bad Guys Disappoint Good Actions

Author:Vinnie Jones

“When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.”

Action Figures Golden Globes Action Figures

Author:Chadwick Boseman

“Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.”

People Action Process Acting Fronts Football Tvs Directors Training Adrenaline Receiver One On One Adrenaline Rush

Author:Brian J. White

“More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.”

Way Should Action Moving Actors Space Action Movie Believable Tight Spaces

Author:Sofia Coppola

“The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.”

People World Dream Running Action Differences Lines Simple Plans Halls Marathon Simple Things Own Business Finish Line Running Marathon Carnegie Carnegie Hall

Book:Intelligence for Your Life: Powerful Lessons for Personal Growth

Source: Intelligence for Your Life: Powerful Lessons for Personal Growth

“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”

Humor Action Funny Grows Sleep Acting Information Left Hand

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“I do find violence entertaining, but that doesn't make me a bad person. I grew up watching all these action films when I was a kid. My dad would bring back 'Rambo' and whatever, and we'd watch it together. It's not affected me in any way other than I just appreciate the entertainment value of violence on film.”

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Author:Scott Adkins

“That's what we do on 'Entourage.' We embed ourselves in legitimate authentic moments so wherever the action is happening, we're taking pieces from that red carpet.”

Moments Action Pieces Happenings Red Carpet Red Carpet Entourage

Author:Adrian Grenier

“I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.”

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Author:Rick Gonzalez

“I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.”

Kids Action Stuff Challenges Athlete Champion Runners Swimmer

Author:Maggie Q

“My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.”

Action Wanted Imagination Growing Up Growing My Favorite Tattoo Action Movie Supergirl

Author:Adrianne Palicki

“I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.”

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Author:Akshay Kumar

“How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.”

Way Play Character Action Actors Unique Quirky

Author:Edward Herrmann

“I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.”

Want Ends Character Stories Action Actors Differences Roles Written Performances Scripts The End Of The Day Capture Good Story Good Character

Author:Andy Serkis

“For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.”

Action Acting Technology Performances Distinction Capture

Author:Andy Serkis

“The wonderful thing about 48 fps is the integration of live action and CG elements; that is something I learned from 'The Hobbit.' We are so used to 24 fps and the romance of celluloid but at 48 fps, you cannot deny the existence of these CG creations in the same time frame and space and environment as the live action.”

Action Romance Used Space Existence Environment Wonderful Creation Elements Deny Integration Wonderful Things Celluloid

Author:Andy Serkis

“In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.”

People Whole Character Action Decision Roles Emotional Creating Pages Responsible Breathing Committees Animated Arcs Small Parts Making Decisions Animated Movies

Author:Andy Serkis

“That part of a work of one author found in another is not of itself piracy, or sufficient to support an action; a man may adopt part of the work of another; he may so make use of another’s labors for the promotion of science and the benefit of the public.”

Men May Use Action Found Support Benefits Labor Sufficient Promotion Piracy

Author:Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

“By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.”

Soul Action Stealing Daring Woe

Author:Richard Savage

“In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of government. What is contemplated .. is support from the army in these tasks but not in direct actions that correspond to municipal, state and federal police.”

Way Different States Government Action Levels Support Tasks Direct Army Police Contemplation Intervention Different Levels Direct Action

Author:Ruben Aguilar

“As a boy,I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher,and some of my harsh actions may echo this shyness by way of compensation.”

Way May Action Results Boys Experts Shy Echoes Harsh Compensation Upbringing Shyness

Author:Gunter Brus

“The wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants.”

Wisdom Action Known Wise Fame Immortality

Author:Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis

“There is nothing in the world that could make me turn from the law. With a clear conscience, I am prepared to answer for each and every one of my political and administrative orders and actions, and to do so before the court of public opinion.”

World Action Law Political Order Turns Answers Opinion Clear Conscience Court Prepared Public Opinion Administrative Clear Conscience

Author:Djemal Pasha

“You are as responsible for what you let happen as for the actions you share.”

Happens Action Share Responsible

Book:A Door Into Ocean

Source: A Door Into Ocean

“There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.”

Action Force Please Strategy Perceive Delicate

Author:Jim Starlin

“The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by the same operation producing exactly opposite results; thus, from the long-suffering of God, some derive benefit, and others harm; some are softened, while others are hardened.”

Long Action Suffering Results Sun Benefits Opposites Harm Operations Heat Dry Mud Hardened Long Suffering

Author:Theodoret

“Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.”

Ifs Giving Two Action Force Loses Ability Enemy Conditions Fronts Demand Draws South Defeat Commit Contribution Being The Best Zone Division Offensive Units Tanks

Author:Aleksandr Vasilevsky

“The sweetest cordial we receive at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.”

Action Lasts Past Conscience Virtuous Sweetest

Author:William Goffe

“people think they have to be good before they can act good. But ... it works just as well the other way 'round.”

People Thinking Way Wells Action Rounds Be Good

Book:Rare Earth

Source: Rare Earth

“Good work instead of long prayers.”

Long Action Prayer Good Work

Author:Anne Royall

“If you are going to do something that will annoy people, tell them about it afterwards; then they will only be annoyed that you have done it, and won't have all the exasperation of trying to stop you.”

People Ifs Trying Done Action Annoying Annoyed Exasperation

Book:The Singing Gold

Source: The Singing Gold

“our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.”

Action Deeds Substance

Author:Craig L. Rice

“this is what I know about courage: You don't have to think about courage to have it. You don't have to feel courageous to be courageous. You don't sit down and say you're going to be courageous. At the moment of action, you don't see it as a courageous act. Courage is the most hidden thing from your eye or mind until after it's done. There's some inner something that tells you what's right. You know you have to do it to survive as a human being. You have no choice.”

Thinking Knows Feels Mind Humans Done Moments Eye Action Choices Human Beings Courage Down And Courageous Be Courageous Hidden Things

Book:Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom

Source: Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom

“plot is character in action.”

Character Action Plot

Author:Maren Elwood

“I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it.”

People Action Courses Argument Muster

Author:Anne Morice

“For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action on behalf of vested interests. ... The lobby was a creature of darkness. It worked behind closed doors and whispered in corners. This ancient industry was one form of invisible government.”

“What the men like best are what there's the least sense in, dresses you can't sit down in, that won't stand a lot of action, that hobble you and truss you up and slow you down and fix it so you can't hardly breathe, till finally you're off in one corner, like a bird in a cage, not cluttering up the busy paths in life that men has got to use. That's the styles they really like!”

Men Use Action Path Style He Man Clothes Bird Down And Dresses Busy Corners Breathe Cages

Author:Ardyth Kennelly

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