I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

- Abigail Adams

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

- Adam McKay

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- Albert Einstein

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.

- Alan Dershowitz

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

- Al Sharpton

My organization, National Action Network (NAN), was on the ground talking and meeting with people in Ferguson, just as we did in Staten Island following Eric Garner's death.

- Al Sharpton

I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.

- Akshay Kumar

I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.

- Akshay Kumar

I'll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.

- Akshay Kumar

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.

- Adam McKay

I love action movies.

- Adam McKay

I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.

- Adam McKay

In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.

- Adam McKay

It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

- Adam McKay

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

- Abu Bakr

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

- Aaron Burr

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

- Aaliyah