Action Movie Quotes - Page 5

• A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Baby, Three, Showing Up

  "Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges Talk R.I.P.D., Childhood Memories, On-Set Injuries, Creating Roy the Cowboy, and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. July 15, 2013.

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• One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

  Steven Seagal

  People, Justice, Reason Why

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• I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.

  Emma Stone

  Action, Terrible

  "Interview with Emma Stone On The Set of Zombieland". Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. July 7, 2009.

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• For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

  Michelle Williams

  Zero, Real, Kitchen

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• Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.

  Donnie Yen

  Art, Men, Skills

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• You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his next move. "People always think that they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel ****ed up for no reason at all.

  Libba Bray

  Moving, Kids, Mean

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• I would just love to do something where I'd have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now

  Christina Milian

  Action, Type, Train

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• The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.

  Christian Slater

  Way, Action, Ifs

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

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• I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.

  Morris Chestnut

  Thinking, Stories, Action

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy I wanna scare people.

  Richard Schiff

  People, Guy, Scare

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

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• Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

  Javier Bardem

  Running, Political, Events

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• Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

  John McTiernan

  Couple, Action, Thrillers

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• I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.

  Christopher Lambert

  Character, Always Trying, Action

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

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• Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie.

  Robert Mark Kamen

  Years, Hong Kong, Action

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• Sexcastle is a perfect mix of homage and comedy, action and irony, loving tribute and hilarious send-up of the great, good, and ungodly-bad action movies of the '80s. I don't remember the last time a debut book hit me this hard. Literally, this book punched me in the face. It's THAT mean.

  Matt Fraction

  Book, Mean, Perfect

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• I don’t know if I’d do an action movie because I don’t know if I could keep a straight face honestly, I just think it’s so silly. Like I love watching them but I can’t imagine me doing one. Actually, you know what I’ve done, just for fun because I didn’t think there was any way that I could be in a superhero movie, so I’ve done a scene in the new “Thor” movie, just for that. I just do like one scene, which was quite fun.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Fun, Silly, Thinking

  "Interview: Chris O’Dowd on Shooting ‘The Sapphires’ in Vietnam and Taking a Role in ‘Thor 2’ for Fun". Interview with Mark Lukenbill, www.indiewire.com. March 19, 2013.

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• If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

  Adam McKay

  Special, Savages, Action

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• Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

  Liam Neeson

  Hollywood, Action, Throwing

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• The funny thing is, I've never really hurt myself in an action movie. I've done 'Wanted,' 'X-Men,' 'Welcome To The Punch,' even 'Trance' to a certain extent has little bits of action and stuff, but I've never really hurt myself at all - not even like a sprained ankle.

  James McAvoy

  Hurt, Men, Funny Things

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• I'm a fan of action movies.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Fans, Action

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 10, 2003.

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• Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

  Monica Bellucci

  Men, Female, Action

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• I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

  Bono

  Movie, Running, Children

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• I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

  Danny Boyle

  Thinking, Cinema, Action

  "Danny Boyle Talks Sunshine, Space, and Sci-Fi". Interview with Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. July 19, 2007.

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• I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

  Jackie Chan

  Thinking, Years, Action

  "Kung fu stalwart, Chan, announces retirement", www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2005.

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• I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Thinking, Action, Tire

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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