‚Speed‘ and ‚Point Break‘ were a lot of running and jumping, and then ‚The Matrix Trilogy‘ had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

All fiction is about people, unless it’s about rabbits pretending to be people. It’s all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that’s what we call ‚the plot‘.

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That’s the Jackie Chan diary.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

Coaches will say that it’s not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

I don’t have a need for speed. I’m not that guy.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

F2 cars have downforce; they’re quick. But it’s difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that’s going on once you’re in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

Never confuse motion with action.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

Act, and God will act.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.