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I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.
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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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There's so many ways to play a bad guy, and usually people choose the obvious one.
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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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Usually, if you've got a great script, everything falls into place.
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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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'The Bank Job,' for me, was a great opportunity for me to do some good acting, you know?
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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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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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Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.
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You should never assume about someone.
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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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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'm naturally a protective person to those close to me.
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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 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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I want to work with Will Ferrell. I want to do, like, an action-comedy with him. How do I get the project for that? It's killing me. I've got all these great ideas, and the hardest thing is getting the material, the screenplay, you know.
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There's a voice in all of us, and you can only get expressive through words. There's a limit to what you can do without speaking.
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London and L.A. are two opposites - I like the difference.
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Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding.
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Working with Sylvester Stallone is beyond a 'pinch yourself' moment. I remember growing up watching his films.
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You got to be careful mentioning people as great as Clint Eastwood. You can't put me in the same sentence as that man.
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I do like a lot of the '70s movies. I love Charles Bronson in 'Hard Times.' All my favorite movies where ones from yesteryear. The '70s was a good era. I love all those.
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I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.