Action Quotes

"I do like to move and get physical in my movies."

"I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness."

"What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun."

"When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV."

"Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end."

"Now on Friday nights, if I want to go hang out with friends, I go hang out with friends. If I want to stay in and be in the hot tub and have people over to watch movies, I do that."

"3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning."

"After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism."

"I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances."

"I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'"

"I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do."

"And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television."

"It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it."

"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition."

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

"I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna."

"If you do cardio one day and the next day you can do weights, do it that way. If you need to do it at night or in the morning, do it that way. Whatever you need to get it done, just get it done."

"I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning."

"I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do."