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  • I would love to try action films. -- Tracy Morgan
  • I love action films. I don't really like drama. -- Danny Trejo
  • My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films. -- Corey Hart
  • I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened. -- Wesley Snipes
  • I could've ended up in action films forever. But the comedy thing has been my forte. -- Terry Crews
  • Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.' -- Nick Nolte
  • In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys. -- Marcia Gay Harden
  • Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture. -- Sylvester Stallone
  • I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do. -- Taylor Lautner
  • I've made a lot of stupid action films in my life but I like stupid action films and am kind of proud of them. -- Joel Silver
  • I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting. -- Jackie Chan
  • With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt! -- Dwayne Johnson
  • Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy. -- Jet Li
  • I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it. -- Joel Silver
  • I didn't really watch action films growing up! I grew up on stuff like 'Anne of Green Gables' - that was more when I was in elementary school. It was all I ever watched. -- Gina Carano
  • The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful. -- Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set up a shot, then you go out for a few minutes or an hour of endurance testing. -- Pierce Brosnan
  • There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience. -- Joe Wright
  • The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats, like small or big, or quiet or expansive. It's all just one loud shout. -- Shane Black
  • I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films. -- Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible. -- Steven Seagal
  • The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it. -- Don Bluth
  • Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that. -- Famke Janssen
  • I've wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. 'I've had a very serious round of dramatic training, and I like action films that take their characters seriously, so I figure I'm making it the best of both worlds if I try to bring some serious acting to a shoot-'em-up picture. -- Brandon Lee
  • I do find violence entertaining, but that doesn't make me a bad person. I grew up watching all these action films when I was a kid. My dad would bring back 'Rambo' and whatever, and we'd watch it together. It's not affected me in any way other than I just appreciate the entertainment value of violence on film. -- Scott Adkins
  • I have a lot of brothers. It's easy for me to do physical stuff. I had to survive. I really love it, and I'd love to do more of it. I want to do action films. I want to go and hang off of wires, and jump off of bridges, and hang on bungee cords. I've always really loved it. -- Stana Katic
  • I love action films. It's my favorite genre. -- Til Schweiger
  • I'll watch anything, from action to art films. -- Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Most Pixar films are better than most live action films. -- Wesley Morris
  • I mean, I love action films, you know, good action films. -- Adam Scott
  • My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste. -- John Waters
  • I've always really loved action films, but I don't see myself as a superhero girl. -- Amy Adams
  • I'd love to do action-y types of films; you know, as long as they're good stories. -- Liam Hemsworth
  • Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing. -- Janusz Kaminski
  • My films have always been considered the benchmark in action. I have a big responsibility to shoulder. -- Sunny Deol
  • I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.' -- Zac Efron
  • You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films. -- Max Landis
  • I love doing action. And I love doing dramatic films, and I'd never really been able to combine them. -- Angelina Jolie
  • As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action. -- John Foster
  • I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films. -- Megan Fox
  • I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do -- Taylor Lautner
  • I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while. -- Richard Farnsworth
  • I would love to get into feature films; Im willing to do an action flick, Im willing to do a romantic comedy. -- Kelli Berglund
  • I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that. -- Joel Silver
  • I would love to get into feature films; I'm willing to do an action flick, I'm willing to do a romantic comedy. -- Kelli Berglund
  • Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films. -- David Dastmalchian
  • We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it. -- Pam Grier
  • There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action. -- John Henrik Clarke
  • I do love action films and I hope I'm going to do many more and learn lots of new crafts 'cause that's the joy of movies. -- Luke Evans
  • I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films. -- Rain
  • I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema. -- Alexander Payne
  • I do love doing action, but if I can balance the scale by doing other kinds of films that satisfy my creative ambitions, that feels really important. -- Jai Courtney
  • I like working on action films, and I like working on movies that are comic book based because they're things I watched or loved as a kid. -- Megan Fox
  • When we look at films, we usually see only the action. Yet it is the decision to act that helps us understand how the character's mind works. -- Linda Seger
  • It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product. -- Norman Jewison
  • I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film. -- Steve Martin
  • In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points. -- Laurie R. King
  • In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points. -- Laurie R. King
  • I enjoy doing an action scene. I'm not a purist as far as films go. If you want to do sex, great. As long as you do it well. -- Keira Knightley
  • I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most. -- Jerry Goldsmith
  • Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement. -- Rob Marshall
  • Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time. -- Morris Chestnut
  • Everyone has this conjecture that action films are somewhat less prestigious than dramatic films. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've done them both and this is hard and dangerous. -- Sylvester Stallone
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