#action

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy. ↗

— Jet Li

#action films #arts #back #bad #bad guy

Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet. ↗

— Matthew Lillard

#because #being #cause #comedy #confined

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#born #capable #first #guiding #over

I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold. ↗

— Howard Lindsay

#beauty #coming #continually #few #foretold

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. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#against #cannot #decide #forced #join

In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite. ↗

— Eric Liu

#action #affirmative #affirmative action #arguing #cal

People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#beat #emotional #films #his #language

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action. ↗

— Edward Livingston

#both #come #hope #knowledge #means

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions. ↗

— Titus Livius

#actions #before #desirable #exemplary #eyes

I've always wanted to be an action figure. ↗

— Jake Lloyd

#action figure #always #figure #i #wanted