Jason Statham
Actor
1972-09-12
Quotes by Jason Statham
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My role model is Sly Stallone.
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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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I've smashed myself around, been on crutches, and broken a couple of bones when I was a kid.
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I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.
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I don't do isolation body building; I just do practical things that help me with the kind of things that are asked of me in action movies. You know, a lot of kick boxing, a lot of sparring.
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The best things in life sometimes happen spontaneously.
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I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.
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People love stories about the mafia: 'The Godfather,' 'American Gangster.'
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The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.
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I go to this gym full of stunt men. There aren't any TVs or treadmills there. This is a spit-and-sawdust kind of place. It has a lot of great training aids - trampolines and bags and every weapon ever invented to do harm to a human being. If you want to know how to throw a knife, it's great.
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If you're going to do something, do it with style!
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If you can have a great story that people can follow the mystery and get the suspense, and then you have those moments of tension and a splash of visual fun, then you kind of get everything. You get your money's worth.
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There's a huge amount of faith and confidence in the stunt team.
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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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Me in a cape? I don't fancy that. Tight tights? Nah! I don't think that's right for me. I just respond more to true stories; that's my flavour.
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I'm certainly not Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.
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One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is.
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A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety and pain.
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The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.
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All of the stunt men - these are the unsung heroes. They really are. Nobody is giving them any credibility. They're risking their necks.
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