Action Films Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• I've always really loved action films, but I don't see myself as a superhero girl.

  Amy Adams

  Girl, Superhero, Action

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 6, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

  Trevor Rabin

  Elephants, People, Too Much

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• I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

  Garth Brooks

  Sleep, Relax, Fans

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• Some people call Police Story the greatest action film of all time, and while I have to be humble and say that I disagree, it's definitely the favorite action film I've ever made.

  Jackie Chan

  Humble, People, Police

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• I'll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.

  Akshay Kumar

  Years, Promise, Fans

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• If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Real, Way, Action

  FaceBook post by Mads Mikkelsen from Jun 02, 2016

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• But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

  Shane West

  Fun, Believe, Ghouls

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• In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Pieces, Scripts, Action

  "We're Talking To You, Miss!". Mohican Press interview, www.mohicanpress.com. March 25, 2005.

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• Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece.

  Devon Sawa

  Independent, Dark, Pieces

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

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• Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.

  Wesley Morris

  Action, Pixar, Film

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• Actually, I can't stand watching violent scenes in films; I avoid watching horror films. I don't tend to watch action films mainly because I find them boring, but I watch the films of David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese, usually in a state close to having a heart attack. I'm a complete coward. I make violent films as a result of my sensitivity to violence - in other words, my fear of violence.

  Park Chan-wook

  Heart, Coward, Violence

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• Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.

  Renny Harlin

  Dollars, Actors, Littles

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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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• 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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• 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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• I've made a lot of stupid action films in my life but I like stupid action films and am kind of proud of them.

  Joel Silver

  Stupid, Proud, Action

  "'V For Vendetta' - Joel Silver/James McTeigue interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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.

  Rick Gonzalez

  Mom, Growing Up, Inspiration

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• Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.

  Rob Marshall

  Stories, Movement, Way

  "Director Marshall on Pirates 4" by Jim Vejvoda, www.ign.com. December 14, 2010.

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• I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

  Tadanobu Asano

  Japan, Other Worlds, Different

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• So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my finger on why, but it might be because the characters can make facial expression that, if you made them in a movie, they'd call them corny.

  Steve Martin

  Character, Expression, Might

  "Steve Martin, Rihanna and Jim Parsons Talk HOME; Plus Our Thoughts on the First Footage From the New DreamWorks Animation Film". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 24, 2014.

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