Top 100 Action Adventure Quotes
#1. You got what you deserved. Now be a man and confess to what most of us already know.
Stacy Buck
#2. There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted and full of adventure and action, where something could be had for nothing.
Wallace Stegner
#3. This is the Rock, sweetheart," the owner added. "There's no tragedy you can't profit from.
Henry Mosquera
#4. I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
Harrison Ford
#7. Huh. What a dope! Wait till Mom hears about this. He's so in trouble now. You know how crazy she gets about malaria.
T.K. Naliaka
#8. Never confuse lust for anything other than what it is. There isn't a man alive that wouldn't gladly take what you are so willing to offer."
"Any but you, apparently."
-Eric to Camile, Pawn of Innocence
Chameleon
#9. Secrets are like honey in a paper bag. Eventually, they leak out.
Drew Bankston
#12. The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head.
Henry Mosquera
#14. But fundamentally, I don't think of it as an alien-invasion movie; everybody's here, kind of, right? So, I think it's probably more of an action-adventure picture, if I actually had to qualify it.
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
#15. Agent Smith, a lady is never late, everyone is simply early." I said back, paraphrasing something I saw on a 20/20 special.
"Well, a lady isn't exactly what they are expecting.
Rumi Antoinette
#16. How could I ever forget my best friend, the man, who had changed my destiny simply by allowing me to write about him?
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#18. A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening ...
Jeanne DuPrau
#19. Reflections of the battlements shimmered in the deep green moat, casting an image of enduring strength, an image that defied the very siege of time.
Karen Azinger
#20. I could see the bay in the distance and where the ship should have been. Instead we found a burnt mast protruding from the waves.
Stacy Buck
#21. Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief.
T.L. Parker
#23. I'm now requesting you refrain from calling me this early in the morning, before I've had a chance to steel my defenses against hearing you utter the word 'lizard.'"
-- spoken by Dr. Jeri Asheer... to Chris Dixon.
Richard Finney
#24. For anyone who wanted to throw away his watch, along with his past, this was the place.
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#25. How do you know I'm any different from the broken, beaten slave you found over seven years ago? - Corin
Claire M. Banschbach
#26. Buddy, you have no idea what I am capable of. Now, put the rifle down on the ground. Step back and walk away. Then leave this place and do not ever come back. If you do that, I will let you live.
James J. Caterino
#27. Come now, I was not about to let that thing eat you.
Stacy Buck
#28. I'm going to be a fairy." Sarah announced, studying her file.
"What a surprise." Nicole mumbled, closing the door.
Alaina Stanford
#29. A beautiful woman belongs to everyone but an ugly one is yours alone -Gunny Chang, Gunship
J.J. Snow
#30. I always loved action adventure. It is something I always wanted to do.
Jon M. Chu
#31. It wasn't premeditated. It was what needed to be done. So I did it.
Milly Silver
#32. Crap this apology stuff is hard!
J.J. Snow
#33. I was always taught to write the book you want to read. It's a philosophy I haven't wavered from since.
E.A. De Graaf
#34. There was a feeling on the air like the eve of the end of the world ...
Billie-Jo Williams
#36. I hate 'The Professional.' It's one of the worst action/adventure movies ever made.
Shane Black
#37. My body folded around the shark's head, and I slammed into Fedder. I couldn't breathe. Then, everything went black. - Dylan Murphy
Heidi Peltier
#38. If I don't pull the trigger, how can I ever be sure you won't come after my people again? How can I know that?
F.J. Gale
#39. Emotion has its place, but it must not interfere with taking the appropriate action.
Susan Oakey-Baker
#40. The Gates of Heaven and the Gates of Hell are the same gates. It just depends which side you're standing on when you walk through.
Amy Lignor
#41. Most people around here prefer undead drivers, so I never get a chance to make any money on steady contracts.
T.K. Naliaka
#43. Adapt or die. It was savagely simple."
-- Celeste
ALL LIGHT WILL FALL
Almney King
#44. Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death.
Lynn Blackmar
#45. No, not my spirit, just my ego, and my arms, and my chest, and my back, but luckily they are just bruised." Squanto responded, "I fear you may not be so lucky.
Stacy Buck
#46. I've actually done a lot of on-screen, live-action stuff prior to 'Adventure Time.'
Jeremy Shada
#47. Susie and Pippa clinked their glasses together. I followed suit, but my heart wasn't in it anymore. It had already left the building.
Milly Silver
#48. I think for me when you look at the idea of being able to create a limitless world and use it almost as a playground for action and adventure and so forth, I naturally gravitate towards cinematic worlds, whether it's the Bond films and things like that.
Christopher Nolan
#49. Leather and tattoos, they were his cover, and she wondered what she'd find when she unwrapped him.
Cindy Skaggs
#50. It must be a great comfort tae him, and tae all, that you have helped so considerably with matters of the Clan," Aiden said. To his left, Ranulf choked on the contents of his tankard and Adalwulf's eyes narrowed.
Claire M. Banschbach
#51. Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.
Jon Scieszka
#52. She leaned forward and opened her eyes wide. "Allow me to offer you some free advice - trade your gems away and keep your opinions to yourself.
Stephen Whitfield
#53. I found myself doing all these action-adventure movies, and it's been a fantastic experience, and I've learnt a lot.
Orlando Bloom
#54. I might've found a way to cure them." Crystal said in a jumble of words.
"Cure them? Permanently?"
"Yes sir."
He thought about this a moment before speaking, "You've got two weeks, can you do it by then?"
"That's plenty of time sir, thank you.
Julia Barkey
#55. I would love a combination of action/adventure and ... love. And stories told with heart. I would like people to be invigorated as well as moved. People to see the movie and see that. I love to play, y'know, well-rounded characters.
Dennis Haysbert
#56. Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control.
Karen Azinger
#57. Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they're soon forgotten.
Karen Azinger
#58. I am so tired of begging your sorry ass, chasing your sorry ass down, tying your sorry ass up. ~ Mercy
Lucian Bane
#59. I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.
Keeley Hawes
#60. No I'm not a dream, I'm your worst nightmare
C.T. Todd
#61. I love adventure movies, I just love action adventure films. It's pure cinema and you go in and you're lost to it. To me, it's that challenge - I want to give an audience that ride, that entertainment.
Tom Cruise
#62. The most amazing mechanism in the known universe is the human brain; it takes in information all the time then uses it, all of which is happening, of course, without human knowledge. Typical ...
Amanda Dubin
#63. Like seduction, the Priestess took poisoning to an art form.
Karen Azinger
#64. I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'
Zac Efron
#65. And so we continued to live in fear, hoping that we would not get caught. Fear had become our constant companion at this dreadful Lashkar-e-Taiba camp.
Vivek Pereira
#66. You are dead, you know!" he screeched delightedly, "Come on Miss Wright! Die! Die! DIE!
William Axtell
#67. I'm 20 years old. I spend my days in a dictionary and half my mind in Fantasy.
Almney King
#68. We must remember that the mortals prefer plant-life for food, for next time."
The other statue nodded in agreement and replied. "Yes. Every day we learn new things Donkor. These mortals have some funny ways don't they?" - Quest Two: The Cursed Nile
S.W. Lothian
#69. None of us could choose our birth, but we could still chose our family, and only those who love you are your true family.
Meg Xuemei X
#70. There are 3 reasons for why you can't beat me. First, I'm better looking than you are. Second, your blows are too light. And third, there's nothing in the world I can't tear up.
Akimine Kamijyo
#72. I guess I should thank you for totally making my morning. It's not every day a stranger notices my perspiration level.
- Dr. Jeri Asher (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)
Richard Finney
#74. All I see is my father's tax money being wasted on shooting satellite pictures of South America like you guys work for the Travel Channel.
Todd Dooley (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)
Richard Finney
#75. Bullets do not discriminate. They are equal-opportunity projectiles.
Peter Duysings
#76. Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure".
Winston Churchill
#77. I'd like to make a twosome with two handsome trees. Make that a threesome as I'd also include a bush in the package, to keep it low profile.
Will Advise
#78. The waiter repeated, The cocktails are from Mr Seadon. He asked me to tell you that he thought you'd enjoy them. They are called Secrets.
Milly Silver
#79. As in all Abercrombie's books, friends turn out to be enemies, enemies turn out to be friends; the line between good and evil is murky indeed; and nothing goes quite as we expect. With eye-popping plot twists and rollicking good action, Half a King is definitely a full adventure.
Rick Riordan
#80. She was so far absorbed in this work, for it was really difficult to find how all these sounds should stand together, and drew upon the whole of her faculties, that she never heard a knock at the door. ~Virginia Woolf
Nicole Arlyn
#81. That hurts my pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal matter with me now..."
-Sherlock Holmes-
-The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Five Orange Pips-
Arthur Conan Doyle
#82. I'd like to be the John Wayne of the '90s. Not in terms of being the macho guy, but as a solid male leading character. Making an action-adventure comedy that kids can see with their families is a natural extension of what I did in wrestling.
Hulk Hogan
#83. Man, sometimes it really sucks being the only sane one on this ship. - Duv Jackson, Gunship
J.J. Snow
#86. Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are back in Cardiff, back in the box, and back in action-for one of our scariest adventures yet!
Steven Moffat
#87. It's a lot like the Wild West out here... just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is.
T.K. Naliaka
#89. Everyone should see at least one street race before they die.
Amanda Lance
#90. Though they were not familiar with the expression,to paraphrase the saying, when any country in the Sahel sneezes, the rest of the region catches pneumonia, the men there would have clicked their tongues and ruefully nodded their heads that 'woolayi' this was the truth.
T.K. Naliaka
#91. Don't fear to take a daring action. It is truest act to your destiny.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#92. Linc was so amazed at what he saw and heard, This is sooo cool. I love this place. This looks way better than a day spotting weird people at Walmart.
S.W. Lothian
#93. If you like Girl with Dragon Tattoo and Vampires, this is for you! (Kathi Humphries (Design) on 'ORPHANS - Time is running out' by Ian Dewar)
Kathi Humphries
#94. Cowgirl Courage isn't the lack of fear, but the courage to take action in the face of fear.
J.H. Lee
#95. To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field.
James Rennell
#96. We never leave a man behind and as Death Adders we always take care of our own. -Reilly Campbell
J.J. Snow
#98. You? Harmless?" Tam snorted.
"What? You don't think I could pull it off?" Aiden accused.
"Well, the fact that you're practically a walking armory had me convinced otherwise.
Claire M. Banschbach
#99. There was a movie called 'Hawk the Slayer' when I was a kid. I think only three people saw it, but me and my brother saw it. I remember when I was a kid thinking that's kind of cool. It was just this sort of action adventure-y sort of thing.
Sean Maguire
#100. The pity in Matt's eyes was almost too much to bear but she found herself unable to turn away. She had only seen that look once and that was when he almost lost Nichole. The sparkle in his eye burned out as if it was nothing more than a dying ember leaving his brown eyes dark and cold. Like Scott's.
Julia Barkey
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