Action Genre Quotes

The 'Bourne' films totally reimagined and elevated the action genre.

I have worked in comedies and romance genre, so I wanted a change. I wanted to do some tough work.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I think that the 'Bourne Trilogy,' it's definitely redefined the genre and took it to a new level. It was really great to be part of that experience. It is a very smart movie and a very smart script, great director, and great, you know, fellow actors.

When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.

'Immortals' is all action. I love action movies. That's really where I want to spearhead my career.

Everybody wants me to do action kind of films. It is OK.

Because of 'Terminator 2,' you get not pigeonholed but circled as one of those guys who can understand their way through a movie like that and hold it down.

I'd like to do 'My Best Friend's Wedding,' 'Pretty Woman,' Meg Ryan type stuff. Romantic comedies. I'd love to do some action stuff as well.

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote.

I'm into zombie movies like 'World War Z' and the shows 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Walking Dead.'

I grew up on R-rated action films, and you didn't blink.

I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.

I mean, I love action films, you know, good action films.

'Mission: Impossible' is basically entertainment, and for what it is, it's fine. I don't think most actors become actors to do that type of film.

Playing tough characters just comes easy for me. It's not who I am in real life, so I love going to work and pretending to be something I'm not. I love all the action and confidence. But when I finally go do a rom-com, I hope my fans will support me.

As for action, yes 'Wanted' was a success in the action genre. But not to the extent of 'Dabangg.'

It's definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It's assumed a woman doesn't have a sense of what action is.

I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.

Considering 'Kaante' is an action film, its music is brilliant.

With 'Daud,' basically, I wanted to make a very 'Mad Max' kind of a film: that was my original intention.

Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not so exciting.

Once you got Hollywood doing these kinds of movies and having all the, how you say, the tools to do it, and also to keep on finding new ways of doing it becomes - Hollywood can be avant garde on what concerns action.