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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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Just because the rest of the people in Hollywood don't do their stunts doesn't mean I don't.
Jason Statham
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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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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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Usually, if you've got a great script, everything falls into place.
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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've always had a fascination with cars and racing, not that I've ever competed.
Jason Statham
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I like crime thrillers. I like heist movies.
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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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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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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.
Jason Statham -
There's so many ways to play a bad guy, and usually people choose the obvious one.
Jason Statham
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London and L.A. are two opposites - I like the difference.
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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 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.
Jason Statham -
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.
Jason Statham -
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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I'm certainly not Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.
Jason Statham
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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.
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I thought 'The Bank Job' was a really quality movie.
Jason Statham -
I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard.
Jason Statham -
Most guys, tough or not, hide emotions. I know a lot of tough guys; they're just as weak as the next man, but they don't show it.
Jason Statham