"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

We know the things that are not good and are right. Those things that we know are wrong, we've got to fix them.

This was great. Let's do it again, soon.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

"I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?"

“A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.”

I'm sure everyone that has ever done an action movie has just drooled over how full of talent Bruce Lee was and how unique he was.

The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.

At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car chase. Even if a lot of the people don't like it, there will be a lot of people that do. But bad comedy is just garbage.

“Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind – you could call it character in action.”

"Real action and true helpfulness are perhaps the ultimate charm."

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die."

Certein bodies… become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium. 

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

“As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise human science is at a loss.” 

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. ” 

“My task is to find the authenticity in the character. I tend to go with the script and tell that story.”

In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first.

“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Refer your action to no other end than the common good.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Action often precedes the feeling