Action Quotes

"Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle."

"A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it."

"All I can do is be me, whoever that is."

"A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement."

"The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter."

"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do."

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

"We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway."

"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."

"I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them."

"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."

"Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter."

"As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long."

"This may sound a little harsh, but I don't care about my career. Really, I don't like actors who are always planning what they're going to do next or always worrying about doing something that will go against the image they've created. To me, that's almost like an attack of narcissism."

"If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move."

"I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin."

"We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers."

"Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there."

"I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment."