‚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.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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‘.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

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

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

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.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

Act, and God will 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.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

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.

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.

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

Never mistake motion for action.

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.

Effective action is always unjust.

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.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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

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.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

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

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

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.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

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

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can’t really measure degrees of difficulty.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

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.

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.

I run New York City!

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

Never confuse motion with action.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

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

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

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

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

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

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!

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we’re ever likely to do that is by going into space.

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

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.

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.

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

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.