Action Film Quotes

I want to be a part of 'Avengers'; they can make me the Hulk! I want to do a superhero film.

When you do a Tom Cruise movie, you don't do a Tom Cruise movie and ask a lot of questions.

I would love to do some type of action feature. That's my goal. A really cool, Transformers-type feature would be awesome.

I'd like to do an action film, a full-on comedy film, family dramas and a soulful romantic film.

Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.

People don't want to always see a comedy or an action film. If the film in a particular genre is made well, then it will see its share of success.

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

My first break was in a Hong Kong movie that I shot in China - I was going out there and working as a western stunt man, if you like, but at the same time in England I was working in daytime soap stuff. Eventually I put the two together.

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

No one has approached me about Captain Marvel. But I don't know if I'd even want to play Captain Marvel. I would much rather play a villain and be nasty. It's more fun.

'Point Break' is a movie that I and all of my friends grew up loving, watching all the time, quoting, living and being.

When I did 'Good Guys Wear Black,' I had a lot of dialogue in that movie.

I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

'Eastern Promises' is great.

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

'How To Train your Dragon 2' is an amazing film. I think it's an extraordinary film. The animation in it is fantastic.

I'd love to do a Marvel movie.

I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality. You are always representing human beings, their fears, their shortcomings, their braveries, their doubts, their loves, their abilities, their brilliance and those things inevitably lead to bigger political systems, foreign policy and crime and religion. It's an action film. We are not taking a stance about big government.

When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.

I really loved 'Fast Five.' I thought it was a brilliant movie. I thought it was so well done, well directed. The action sequences were really well thought out. It looked fantastic.

'Crouching Tiger,' of course, was a very dramatic role for me, and the fighting was very serious.

'Terminator 2' is so good. I love it.

I think I would love to do a role where I completely transform myself and look completely different, act completely different, and do some crazy, cool, action drama where I was undercover and saving the world.

I wanted to do something that dealt with more of paranormal techniques that wasn't a horror movie. It is an action movie that deals with a special operations group. But if a Tier One team went in to take out Bin Laden today, if you had those kind of abilities, of course you would use that kind of group. And it was more going into that arena. And I wanted to make it feel more like, grounded, as if we had this ability.

'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller.