Best Action Movie Quotes

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.

You’re a disease. And I’m the cure.

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.

I’ve been fortunate in that I’ve been able to have that balance as an actress to be able to do the wild, fun action movies and also be allowed to do the dramas. Hopefully, if I’m able to keep that balance, I’d love to always try to do both.

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

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.

I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.

I was made for action movies.

I’m a classic movie person. I love action movies, too, but when I grew up I didn’t have much action movies.

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.

I don’t like doing action movies. They’re not that interesting… it’s fun to do the physical element but the really fun stuff, like running into exploding buildings, they won’t let you do. There’s too much money riding on you not getting hurt. But yes, there’s something exhilarating in just sitting on a beach with somebody having a real conversation. There’s something exhilarating about being open and honest.

I grew up with action movies in my head.

In all the movies I’m in love with someone in my head. There’s always love in a film somewhere. It doesn’t matter even if it’s an action movie.

A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints’ was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I’d be happy not to do them if there are better roles.

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

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I’m also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote

I’m surrounded by a lot of live-action movie professionals, and I’m just taking their lead, as far as what to schedule to do next. I’m guessing the challenge is going to be not having two characters together, and shooting the live-action without having the animation. In animation, you get to get in between every frame and you work it all out together.

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

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.

I never think I’m capable of any of [action movies]! I’m always terrified, but luckily on this one it was directed by my husband [Len Wiseman]. ‘I can’t possibly do it. I’m too scared, I can’t do it.’ He says: ‘Go on. DO it!’ So it is shocking as I’m not one of those people who finds that stuff easy.

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.

One of my goals is definitely break into film, and I want to do action movies as well.

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

They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film.

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.

Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.

There’s one thing about weights with action movies: Once your muscles get that tight, it’s sometimes hard to stop your movement, especially if you’re trying to move with some strength, and with the swords in the film.

I think the action movies in the 80s and 90s were different. It was a testosterone age. Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sylvester Stallone – they fuelled my childhood. But now I don’t think I’d like to do just action, I don’t enjoy that.

The idea right now – and it may evolve – would be a live-action movie where some of his characters would be animated. To me, this movie is very much about the creative process.

The more romance novelists that are out there, making romanticized ideas of vampirism for the kids, the more people want to see a real action movie, putting the bad guys where they belong, as the bad guys, and looking for a hero to come along and defend our very souls.

I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions.

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

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

I know what you’re thinking ‘Did he fire six shots or only five?

I’m shockingly terrible at action movies.