Action Films Quotes

• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Mario Puzo

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Film History

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969)

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• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

  Clark Gable

  Movie, Badass, Wind

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• You're a disease. And I'm the cure.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Badass, Disease, Cures

  "Cobra". www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• You're gonna need a bigger boat.

  Peter Benchley

  Inspirational, Movie, Radio News

  "Fictional character: Chief Martin Brody". "Jaws", www.imdb.com. June 20, 1975.

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• If I can do anything in this time of my career, I want to make it easier for other actresses and girls who are growing up to go, 'I get to be a part of a comedy or an action film or a romantic comedy or a thriller or just a romance, without having to wind up with someone to complete us.' I complete me. I just got lucky that, after I completed myself, I met someone who could tolerate me.

  Sandra Bullock

  Girl, Growing Up, Wind

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• But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

  Bruce Willis

  Genre Is, Guy, Action

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• People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Real, School, People

  Interview with Chad Williams, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 11, 2010.

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• In the past decade, there have been a lot of friends or directors, either gossiping or telling me directly, "What you're doing now is the right thing, your main concern should be taking care of yourself, and not doing action at your age." Well, after first feeling angry, I'd think, to be honest, I really am older. So I thought, all right, but before I retire I'd like to make one last major action film, one good one.

  Jackie Chan

  Past, Thinking, Feelings

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• Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Character, Impact, Action

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• Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

  Beck

  Growing Up, Lines, Comedy

  "Catching Up With Beck". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 02, 2010.

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• You get a role like this in a big action movie [like Jack Reacher] and you can go one of two ways: you can paint in broad strokes, which happens a lot in action films, or you can get very detailed.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Two, Way, Roles

  "'Jack Reacher' Villain Patrick Heusinger on Playing Opposite Tom Cruise". Interview with Harper's Bazaar, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 24, 2016.

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• I hope I can make some Hollywood-type action films like 'Batman' or 'Spiderman', action films like that. With some wire work, maybe wearing a mask. Like that.

  Jackie Chan

  Wire, Wearing A Mask, Hollywood

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• Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning martial arts from us. But about a decade ago, Hollywood began bringing in a number of our action choreographers, including two from my own stunt crew, where they became martial arts directors. Now, a decade later, Hollywood has learned it all, so when you look at the action films they're making now, they all use our action, our martial arts, and then add to that their own technology which is ten times better than ours, and it has to leave us dumbfounded: how did they film that?

  Jackie Chan

  Art, Technology, Two

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• I like working on action films, and I like working on movies that are comic book based, or that have this theme, because they're things I watched or loved as a kid.

  Megan Fox

  Book, Kids, Action

  "JONAH HEX Press Conference: Read or Listen to Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, Director Jimmy Hayward and Producer Andrew Lazar". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. June 15, 2010.

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• I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.

  Steve Martin

  Heart, Action, Emotion

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• Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories are constantly changing according to budget, actors, and commercial needs. Films are a collaborative process and are also inherently narrative and structured, so you are always working within very tight parameters. Short fiction unleashes a more intimate voice and a passion for language. I believe short narratives can have the same amount of danger and drama as any action film.

  Chiara Barzini

  Drama, Believe, Passion

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• I love it all. I don't want to go through my career with one hand tied behind my back. I love making kids happy. I love the midnight audience. I like intense dramas. And I like high-adrenaline action films.

  Nicolas Cage

  Drama, Kids, Hands

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• In my mind, martial arts movies are martial arts movies and action is action. It's quite different, because martial arts doesn't just have physical form; you have a philosophy, internal and external. A lot of it involves your life. How you see the world. An action film I think is just about the movement. I think it's different.

  Jet Li

  Art, Philosophy, Thinking

  "Rogue' Set Visit: Jet Li on 'Fearless,' 'Monk in New York,' and Another Fight Breakdown!". Rotten Tomatoes Interview, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. June 9, 2006.

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• When you assemble animation teams the way you do a live-action film, you're often struggling a bit to get a cohesive team together, so if you have a team that works well together, you're hoping for another film so that you can refine the team.

  Brad Bird

  Team, Struggle, Together

  "Brad Bird Talks 'Iron Giant: Signature Edition', The Original Ending, And More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. October 1, 2015.

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• Yeah loads of bruises and welts, usually around the hip, arse, thigh region and elbows. Elbows got knocked up big time, but it was so much fun. I hadn't done a meaty action film in seven or eight years, so it was fun to explore that aspect of storytelling again.

  Colin Farrell

  Fun, Eight, Years

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality. You are always representing human beings, their fears, their shortcomings, their braveries, their doubts, their loves, their abilities, their brilliance and those things inevitably lead to bigger political systems, foreign policy and crime and religion. It's an action film. We are not taking a stance about big government.

  Colin Farrell

  Mean, Reality, Government

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.

  Morris Chestnut

  Dirty, Air, Perfect

  "Interview: Morris Chestnut and Faizon Love". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 12, 2007.

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• I approach every film I do in the same way, whether it's an action film or not an action film. I guess if a certain physicality lends itself to action, but I started acting before I reached puberty. I was 7 years old when I started acting. It wasn't until I became a bouncer in New York.

  Vin Diesel

  New York, Years, Acting

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