Action Films Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• You're a disease. And I'm the cure.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Badass, Disease, Cures

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

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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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• I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.

  Taylor Lautner

  Drama, Character, Giving

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.

  Don Bluth

  Running, Sex, Rocks

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

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• I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

  Bruce Willis

  Running, Fun, Trying

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• If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

  Vin Diesel

  Appreciation, Understanding, Dresses

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• Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

  Famke Janssen

  Wise, Fighting, Careers

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• I would love to try action films.

  Tracy Morgan

  Trying, Action, Film

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. July 17, 2008.

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• I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.

  Wesley Snipes

  Action, Kind, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yeah, I do all the stuff I can. Let’s be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in it for the characters, you are in it for the action – the stunts. If they take that away from you, it’s a sad story. Ha ha! I have damaged everything: knees, elbows, ribs. But I’m an old gymnast. I know how to survive.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Character, Ribs, Stories

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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 dinged for wanting to do a comedy, then wanting to do a big-budget action film, and then wanting to do an indie. But you can't let other people trying to label you get in the way of trying to do something artistically.

  Nicolas Cage

  People, Trying, Labels

  "Toronto Film Festival 2013 Q&A: Joe's Nicolas Cage". Interview with David Fear, www.timeout.com. September 9, 2013.

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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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• 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

  Art, Wife, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible.

  Steven Seagal

  Hero, Character, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

  Joel Silver

  Stupid, People, Saws

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• I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I'm still planning to shoot everything on film.

  Steven Spielberg

  Digital, Firsts, Steps

  "'Old Fashioned' Steven Spielberg Says Film Processing Labs Could Be Gone In 10 Years; Pleads With Audiences To See ‘War Horse’ On The Big Screen" by Edward Davis, www.indiewire.com. November 29, 2011.

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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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• Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Play, Culture, Morality

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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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• 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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