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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.

What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

In 'The Smurfs,' I was actually a live action character. So, I was a real person in that movie. But I was working with animated characters, which is very strange because they're off recording their work, and we're kind of reacting to nothing when we're doing the film.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.

Every action we have is going to have repercussions in ways we could not anticipate.

If you engage with the police, filled with fear, you're more likely to make really bad decisions that than provoke them to take action.

At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car chase. Even if a lot of the people don't like it, there will be a lot of people that do. But bad comedy is just garbage.

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

I think it's refreshing to have a character-driven 'Batman' story that isn't just about action and getting out of scrapes.

As a listener, we're looking for that person who kind of excites the molecules within us - who knows how to tell the story that resonates deeply to our core and almost prompts us into action. Fats Waller has been that person for decades. When people need a lift, sometimes they go to him. I know I do.

I collect action figures, mostly. I have a Batman room, with just Batman stuff, and I have a Disney collection.

I don't know if we have any action going on, so there shouldn't be anybody worried about the rumors if it entails the Milwaukee Bucks. This is our team.

Wonder Woman 1984's' major action scenes all fail to deliver; her pursuit of Maxwell Lord in an Egyptian caravan looks like a pre-production storyboard for the car chase scene in the 'Matrix Reloaded.'

Yes, trash like 'Man of Steel' and 'Justice League' don't hold a candle to the humor, continuity and action of most Marvel Cinematic Universe films, but 'Wonder Woman 1984,' for all of its flaws, shouldn't be lumped in with those rubbish films.

Blaxploitation films were all about centering Black love, action, pathos and showing Black folks with agency.

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.