Carl Weathers Quotes
I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.
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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
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Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.
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I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.
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If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.
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Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.
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Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.
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I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.
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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
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Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?
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I believe dancing is the best stress reliever.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.
