Action over Talk Quotes

You need to earn your spurs through performance, not interviews.

These men are all talk; What is needed is action — action!

If we want to be cost-conscious, we should do it, not just talk about how cost-conscious we are.

I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun.

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are going to be useless. So as you're going through the process, you get excited and put your all into it. But you don't get carried away, because until you do the thing, nothing hasn't happened yet. The rest is just talk.

When it comes to the military, I don't want to discuss things. I want to let - I want to let the action take place before the talk takes place

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

I'd like to show an improved product rather than just talk about things we might do.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

The basic thing is to be humble, and pretend you're a bartender in the tavern of life. Don't get too comfortable and don't really listen to anybody else. Don't stand around with a bunch of writers and talk about writing. You know when you see plumbers at a plumbers convention, usually they're not talking about plumbing: they're talking about whatever it is that two men happen to talk about. They're talking about sports, their wives and children. I just tell my students, don't talk about writing too much, just go out and do it. Find out whatever you need to get to the mainland.