Action Movie Quotes

• I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Thinking, Play, Evil

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• A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

  Jason Statham

  Today, Action, Scene

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• My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

  William Goldman

  Movie, Revenge, Father

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• I feel the need... the need for speed.

  Tom Cruise

  Movie, Gun, Great Year

  FaceBook post by Tom Cruise from Jan 24, 2013

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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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• I'm gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. To the blood bank!

  Steven Seagal

  Blood, Senators

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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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• I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

  Tom Glavine

  Movie, Taken, Skills

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• That's why I'm going to kill you and see how Haruhi Suzumiya reacts.

  Nagaru Tanigawa

  Commandos

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• Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.

  Bruce Willis

  Feet, World, Nine

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• Come with me if you want to live!

  Moses

  Pie, Want, Tough Guy

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• I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?

  Clint Eastwood

  Movie, Thinking, Fire

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• What we got here is a failure to communicate.

  Paul Newman

  Movie, Top 100, Communicate

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• Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

  John Hughes

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time. The gap widened between the beauty, the seriousness of the work, and what it has become is beyond me. This level of marketing reduces to nothing the aesthetic and philosophical significance of this work.

  Christopher Tolkien

  Book, Philosophical, Years

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• I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.

  Doug Liman

  Smart, Character, Dark

  "Doug Liman: How to Make an Original Hollywood Blockbuster". Interview with Garin Pirnia, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2014.

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• They don't mind getting punched in the face and, more importantly, they don't mind punching other people in the face. I'm just about the movies; I enjoy the dexterity of actors in action movies and the choreography side of things. You've just got to be a different person to be a professional fighter. I train with professional fighters so I know what it takes. It's a very difficult profession, probably harder then the acting profession.

  Scott Adkins

  People, Mind, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story.

  Robert Englund

  Scary Stories, People, Watches

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Men, Years, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I initially studied literature [in France], and then I went to cinema school. I discovered the Cinematheque, and saw not only action movies and westerns, but also lots of serious movies.

  Costa-Gavras

  School, Cinema, Literature

  Source: progressive.org

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• I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Fun, Done, Action

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

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• There's a part of me that would love to be in an action movie where I get to run around and punch people in the face and, whatever, be a murderer, I don't care!

  Jenny Slate

  Running, People, Care

  "Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll Q&A: ‘My Blind Brother’ Stars Dig Deep On Complicated Characters You Can’t Help But Root For". Interview with Steve Greene, www.indiewire.com. September 23, 2016.

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• Consequently, pictures are aimed at certain audiences, whether it be a teen comedy or an action movie or whatever. It's unfortunate, because while it may lead to big opening grosses, a lot of pictures that are a little different and don't fit so neatly into either a niche market or a high-concept marketing approach can get lost in the shuffle. That's one unfortunate thing.

  Curtis Hanson

  Unfortunate Things, Marketing, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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