Top 100 Live Action Quotes
#1. There is always something through which things get into our minds. There is always something in mind which does not only control the mind, but also the life we live in totality!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#2. Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action, you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon.
John C. Reilly
#3. For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.
Andy Serkis
#4. Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#5. I learned my lesson that in the live-action world, you have to earn the support of people over a very, very long time. And in animation, I already have the support.
Henry Selick
#6. In live action, you go scene by scene, but in voice over you go line by line. In voice over you do a lot more takes.
Joshua Rush
#7. You can't just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality.
Steve Maraboli
#8. To know another person is to Know How to live and work with her. To know another person in a moral sense is to Know How to respect her... Respect must show in action.
Kathryn Pyne Addelson
#9. The idea right now - and it may evolve - would be a live-action movie where some of his characters would be animated. To me, this movie is very much about the creative process.
Christopher Meledandri
#10. When you have kids you want to be able to go to movies and take the family too, and actually all enjoy it together. I don't think there are that many great, live action family movies that everybody can enjoy.
Ben Stiller
#11. We live in a world of entertainment in full color with a lot of fast action, a world in which many children grow up thinking that if it isn't fun, it is boring and not worthwhile. Even in family activities we need to strike a balance between play and work.
Joe J. Christensen
#12. You're amazing, and I so want to be your boyfriend, because of what you just said, and also because that shirt makes me want to take you home and do unspeakable things while we watch live-action Sailor Moon videos
John Green
#13. Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it's when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.
Steve Maraboli
#14. I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.
Bill Plympton
#15. If you intend to change, decide what you want and live your life accordingly.
Steve Maraboli
#16. Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.
Jean Vanier
#17. In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.
John Hench
#18. When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
Zack Snyder
#19. 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
#20. The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.
Israelmore Ayivor
#21. It is incredibly daunting to take on a live-action story. I think that it adds a level of complexity to the responsibility that goes beyond what I've experienced on these two films (The Lorax and Horton Hears a Who).
Christopher Meledandri
#22. Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.
Ralph Bakshi
#23. There's no time like the present to love deeply, claim our power and live our purpose!
Kristi Bowman
#24. I would not be allowed to be in the web series without playing 'Halo.' I'm awful, by the way. I'm much better at the live action version.
Anna Popplewell
#25. Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
Patrick Warburton
#26. In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
Sallust
#27. All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.
Frederick Lenz
#28. A static action is never an action. A real action is an action in motion! Dare to do something!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#29. We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
Herman Melville
#30. Today, many will choose to live free of conditions and rules governing their own happiness. Why not you? Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions! Today's a new day!
Steve Maraboli
#31. You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'
John Lasseter
#33. With every choice you create the life you'll live; with every decision you design it.
Mollie Marti
#34. I really like the animated film process. It's kind of like doing a play, because you can experiment with it, rewrite it, screen it, go back, then work on it a little bit more. If the joke doesn't work, you can fix it. It's different from a live action movie.
Steve Martin
#35. You may be able to conquer the whole world and gain everything in action,
But you'll live in torment if you can't find peace of mind and satisfaction.
Mouloud Benzadi
#36. Often, people ask if it's different doing live-action and voice-over, but the only thing that's different, really, is that we're in a booth and there's no camera on me. But, my intention, as an actor, is exactly the same.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#37. The 3D, it changes the way you shoot in a way, especially when you're shooting live action 3D elements.
Bryan Singer
#38. 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
#39. When you're dealing with shooting a lot of live action in 3D, you're committed to how much 3D you're giving the audience.
Bryan Singer
#40. Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty? To live a life.
Rick Bass
#41. L I V E or E V I L
to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards.
Shannon L. Alder
#42. I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.
Henry Selick
#43. Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.
Paulo Coelho
#44. There is no perfect condition so now is the perfect time and today is the perfect day to take action.
Debasish Mridha
#45. When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.
Frederick Lenz
#46. Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.
Abbie Cornish
#47. But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.
Robert Duvall
#48. I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don't live in already.
Ken MacLeod
#49. It's not quite the same as other kinds of performing, but I love animation. It is just a different kind of experience. The difference is that making a live action movie you are using your whole body.
John Leguizamo
#50. The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean - so Bunbury died.
He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. I am glad, however, that he made up his mind at the last to some definite course of action, and acted under proper medical advice.
Oscar Wilde
#51. I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.
Steve Martin
#52. You've been given the innate power to shape your life ... but you cannot just speak change, you have to LIVE change. Intent paired with action builds the bridge to success. You can't just want it; you have to do it, live it ... BE it! Success isn't something you have, it's something you DO!
Steve Maraboli
#53. The kind of life you live, your disposition, your very nature, will be determined by your thoughts, of which your acts are but the outward expression. Thought is the seed of action.
David O. McKay
#54. 'Coraline' is Neil Gaiman's book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it to be. I always thought that it would work better as an animated film.
Henry Selick
#56. Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.
Wesley Morris
#57. For 82 minutes, 'The Little Mermaid' reclaims the movie house as a dream palace and the big screen as a window into enchantment. Live-action filmmakers, see this and try to top it. Go on and try.
Richard Corliss
#58. Many men know the recipes of life, but only few go into the kitchen to cook it. Go make it happen!
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#59. We can not just live any how. There are consequences for every action, where evil or good.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#60. Japanese animation tends to need high budgets. If I have a high budget for a movie, I usually make animation, but if the project has a low budget, then I would ask the producer to consider live action.
Mamoru Oshii
#61. If love is an attraction,
then love may be the first.
If life is the source of all creation,
then love might be the point of action.
Let life and love live together
Let's love win over life forever.
Debasish Mridha
#62. With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of 'the Other' - people living in a distant land who don't look like us. It might have been exotic, but also a "Third-World" story.
Marjane Satrapi
#63. Modern minds no longer object to the Church because of the way they think, but because of the way they live. They no longer have difficulties with the Creed, but with her Commandments. The heresy of our day is not the heresy of thought, but of action.
Fulton J. Sheen
#64. In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
Michael Arndt
#65. I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A., and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries!
Doug Liman
#66. You're more afraid to live than you are of death.
F.J. Gale
#67. Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.
George Amos Dorsey
#68. Free action is to live in the present society as though it were a natural society.
Paul Goodman
#69. Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.
Steve Maraboli
#70. Once you consider the premise that Episodes I through III are not live-action movies with extensive special effects, but rather animated features with a few living actors rotoscoped in, many of the more common critical objections to the movies simply wither away.
David Brin
#71. The truth is, we live in deeds, not days; in actions and thoughts and feelings, not heartbeats.
Michael Mullen
#72. A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.
Ryan Reynolds
#73. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mahatma Gandhi
#74. 3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.
Ang Lee
#75. When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice.
Jesse Eisenberg
#76. I can't remember the last live-action, non-animated Christmas movie.
Bob Newhart
#77. It's nice to be playing a character who's never had a live-action version before.
Robbie Amell
#78. Quit putting yourself in a little box by trying to live consistently with your past and explaining every little action you take. BE YOU. Fully. In this moment. Independent of what others may or may not 'expect' from you.
Brian Johnson
#79. The individualists' ideal was to live their lives as neither exploiter nor exploited - but how to do that in a society divided in this way? Their answer was for people to take direct action through the reprise individuelle, or in slang, la reprise au tas - taking back the whole heap.
Richard Parry
#80. Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?
Gore Verbinski
#81. Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end.
Saul D. Alinsky
#82. Our interexistence assures that there is an effect for every intention, action, decision and word. For good or for evil, the people we are in both private and in public, take on life or death and collectively create the world we live in.
Mac MacKenzie
#83. Forgiveness is manifested mercy; it is live in action - not love based on a feeling, but love based on a decision, an intentional choice to obey God.
Joyce Meyer
#84. It's time to be the person you were meant to be, Cat. You don't just have to make decisions and stand by them now. You have to live with them.
Amanda Bouchet
#85. I think the biggest difference is in live action, you show up, and there's a set there and a ground to stand on, at least, and in animation, there's kinda nothing. You are making decisions on everything.
Dan Scanlon
#86. It's like live action if you reshot every scene a million times after finishing the movie. Because even apparently by the very end, a few weeks before they were screening it for the world premiere, they were making changes. That's just simply something you can't do on live action.
John Francis Daley
#87. Looking up at the stars, he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a tool. One's own life: an instrument for the shaping of the world.
Laini Taylor
#88. Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument.
Felicia Day
#89. The world of Ultimate Spider-Man is funny. I can't imagine a live-action film where he's Principal Coulson and dealing with some of the pranks from these guys.
Clark Gregg
#91. Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it ... and even more to live it.
Criss Jami
#92. Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.
Daniel Craig
#93. We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.
Maria Montessori
#94. The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.
Bill Gates
#95. What I've done for the last ten years is develop high profile entertainment properties for animation, so it's kind of funny to be able to create my own book to already know how I'd want to develop it for animation and live action.
Eric Wight
#96. This is not the time to be passive. This is the time to shape, sculpt, paint, participate ... the time to get sweaty, to get dirty, to fall in love, to forgive, to forget, to hug, to kiss ... this is the time to experience, participate and live your life as a verb.
Steve Maraboli
#97. Whether I'm directing live action or animation, my responsibility is the same. I have an audience sitting in a theater with their popcorn, and I've got to show them a good time and make them feel something.
Lee Unkrich
#98. We live our lives with hope, intentions, and actions. Without hope, there will be no intention. Without intention, there will be no action.
Debasish Mridha
#99. We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web.
DJ Spooky
#100. In a culture where life was short, decisions had to be made in a hurry. You would never have enough time, might never live to see the consequences of a wrong action - or a correct one. On Query, it was different.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
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