Jason Statham Quotes
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A lot of good actors are turning to TV.
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The Rock is the Rock, you know? He's the ultimate athlete, the professional man with precision. And you want precision from a 270-pound living, walking brick wall.
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The best things in life sometimes happen spontaneously.
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'Homefront' was written by Sylvester Stallone. He actually wrote it for himself, which is, for me, an amazing privilege: To be handed a script by Sly that he wrote for himself, that he asked me to do.
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I've just got a really bad smile. I go for the scowl instead.
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I love getting dressed up in a suit because I don't do it all the time.
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There's so many ways to play a bad guy, and usually people choose the obvious one.
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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.
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I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.
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A lot of the TV shows, they do long hours, and they do a lot of days, and you don't get a lot of time. But the good thing is, if you get one that's made in L.A., or made in a place you want to be, you get to go home every night.
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I'm more into MMA than any other sport. I watch a lot of the UFC fights. I have since it first came onto the scene.
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There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.
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There's so much more danger in someone where you really don't know what they're going to do, and you don't know what they're really capable of, rather than someone who's trying to be physically tough.
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I remember the first time I saw Robert De Niro at a party. I didn't want to run over and shake his hand. I wanted to admire him from a distance. Later, I ended up making a movie with him, and that was fantastic.
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Every actor has a strength, and sometimes you just respond to things that you see yourself better at. I'm aware of what I can and can't do.
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You should never assume about someone.
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When I was growing up, my dad didn't have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket, it was a hand-me-down weight bench.
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I'm into all things German. Everything that I own is German. As far as cars go, anyway.
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I'm certainly not Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.
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Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.
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I love Tony Jaa. He's one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world.
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If we want to talk about the movies that have made an impact in what I do in the action realm - Bruce Lee in 'Enter the Dragon.' I've watched that countless times.
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I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard.
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A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly, you've got a chance of something else, but sometimes it just doesn't work that way. Ideally, it's insurance for the future; if you can do something, if you can find a character that people really do like, then you're very lucky.