Martial Arts Quotes
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Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.
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In martial arts, the way that they train really does channel that killer instinct. We used to put motorcycle helmets on and go full force at each other with these sticks to train.
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I thought, 'If I can create a business to promote martial arts, that'd sure be a lot of fun.'
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I don't consider myself a martial-arts star. I'd be offended and disappointed if I got a reputation as a martial-arts star.
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Martial arts is the kind of action that does tie in well to the supernatural.
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When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.
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I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some martial arts experience.
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This isn't to play down people who pursue acting... For me, I do acting just as a fun job. It is a phenomenal job, and I have fun doing it, but I relate more to my martial arts, to my baseball, to my film study. There are more facets to my life that I relate to.
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Martial arts is a life journey. One of the things my teacher taught me a long time ago was that everyone's path to the mastery of a certain system is different. Some people's path is a very direct route, where others might wind back and forth if you are injured or something.
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I really connected with martial arts. I'd always had a fantasy as a kid of being a ninja warrior, so it definitely answered that sort of need in my psyche, too - a need to be superpowerful.
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When you're doing something like wrestling - wrestling is one of the toughest and hardest martial arts to learn - but it's still a form of martial arts. It's still controlled.
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Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.
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When you think about mixed martial arts, you have to think about the entire scope of the athlete.
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Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.
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I love athletics and martial-arts and competition because it gets me right and puts me in the right place.
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I love the play between the conscious and unconscious minds in the creative moment, and for me chess and the martial arts are both about developing a rich working relationship with your intuition.
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Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker...
