‚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.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

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

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Action expresses priorities.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

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

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

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

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

Never mistake motion for action.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

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.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

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.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

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

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

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

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

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.

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.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

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.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

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.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

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

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

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

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.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

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

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

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

Justice is truth in action.

Well done is better than well said.