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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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 made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.
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I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.
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“Each man is the architect of his own fortune.”
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I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.
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I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.
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Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
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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.
