I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

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

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

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

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

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.

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

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

Well done is better than well said.

Action is character.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

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

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Act, and God will act.

Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can’t be done.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

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.

I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

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.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

I’ve choreographed all of my movies.

I met Will Smith twice. I didn’t talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him – he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

When I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

The thing that’s made me open my eyes to what was happening to the environment and climate was films and documentaries.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

I’ll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there’s always a question of taste.

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.

I’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‚Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this‘ – have become commonplace in films and music too.

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