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I was a big fan of Grant Fuhr. I was a big Oilers fan growing up. I started out playing goal, but there wasn't enough action. So I decided to play out, and I'm thankful, 'cause goalie is a tough position.

The whole time that I was doing the voice of Korra, I would always joke around saying that nobody's gonna give me a job as an action star or a hero. I just do silly comedy.

I think that affirmative action programs can be very important.

What I have to outline is action and plot because I'm not particularly good at that.

Story may not be a great addition to some games - games where action is the whole reason for the game to exist.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear.

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.

I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both a balm and a call to action.

'Death Sentence' really is a throwback to the '70s style revenge drama with moments of action. It's like a contemporary 'Death Wish' with a much more thriller style storyline, but the action scenes I shot very much in the style of '70s films like 'The French Connection.'

I love what I did in 'Death Sentence,' but that was a low budget action film.

I just think action films now have... often, because you can do anything with CGI, people do. And I don't think you necessarily should. You lose that sort of human dimension, and you get all the stuff breaking the laws of physics.

For action to work, you need an awful lot of coverage. Because if you do a fight sequence, you really need to be able to creed the energy in the edit or augment the energy in the edit. So you need to really, really cover it.

I believe in muscle memory - the more you practice an action, the more your body becomes in sync with it.

You really need to learn how to turn it on for 'action' and off for 'cut.'

British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'

I started lower down the leagues with Coventry, so I'd had that taste of first-team action at a young age. I'd already played 40 or 50 games before moving on, and when I got to Norwich, I had to bide my time at the start.

The Senate are a branch of the treaty-making power, and by consulting them in advance of his own action upon important measures of foreign policy which may ultimately come before them for their consideration, the President secures harmony of action between that body and himself.

My life isn't just one genre. It's a romance one minute, an action movie the next - it's actually rarely, rarely an action film, to be frank.

What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.