These words are uttered by Eli Wallach’s character Tuco in, The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly. When A baddy has Tuco cornered, gun in hand, he goes on and on about how he’s been looking forward to getting his revenge. Yak, yak, yak. The guy is full of cocky bravado because he’s holding the gun. Tuco outdraws him of course and says those famous words.
The supposed origin for the line comes from some Italian saying, "Do it, don’t yak about it." I'm sure it sounds better in Italian.
It had been used to poor effect in the wretched Van Helsing. That time hissed by Kate Beckensale. Her tight leather pants couldn’t save that rotted turd of a movie.
Nike has used this concept to sell slave labor shoes.
Etcetera, etcetera. I’m going off point.
Put simply, those who talk are simply talkers. Attempting to make others and themselves believe in something that is probably not real. It is action that shows what a person's mettle is. It may seem like a cliché, but actions do speak volumes while words can be as empty as the soul who speaks them.
Then again… these are only words.
What a quandry.
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