I love westerns. It's guys being guys. There's no room for frilly stuff.
— Jason Statham
People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.
As an actor, you work to the script: that's our main priority. But you have to be aware and look around for things that help you bring that little bit extra, that touch of realism that rams the point home.
Every movie you do, you find something in yourself that you probably didn't know that you had, and a director will find something in you that you can nurture and find and bring for the next one.
I'm very fussy. I'm very hard to please.
If you're going to do something, do it with style!
How long you can continue to be good at something is how much you believe in yourself and how much hard work you do with the training.
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.
Comedy is not my first go-to sort of genre.
Suits change a lot - the wide lapel thing, the fashion trends, the trousers change.
A bespoke shirt is one of the true luxuries that you can acquire. There's nothing better than a fitted shirt. Once you've picked up your first one, you'll never stop buying them - providing you can pay for it.
I've never had an acting lesson in my life. I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing.
Human nature says that you want a bargain, whether you want the goods or not. You think that something is a steal, you'll buy it.
I really enjoyed working with Guy Ritchie. One, it gave me a career, and two, they're probably a couple of the best films I've ever done.
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.
I'm sure everyone that has ever done an action movie has just drooled over how full of talent Bruce Lee was and how unique he was.
I loved 'The Sweeney.'
Revenge is a caustic thing. I say, Breathe in, breathe deeply, let it go.
The physical DNA has always been part of our family. My dad was a good boxer and gymnast; my mum is a ballroom dancer, and my brother does martial arts.
My role model is Sly Stallone.
High risk is high adrenaline.
I've just got a really bad smile. I go for the scowl instead.
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.
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.
With 'The Expendables,' you have such a brilliant mess of the greatest action stars of all time, so you're in for the ride with those people.
I tend to leave people alone that I admire.
I love getting dressed up in a suit because I don't do it all the time.
The movie style of fighting is completely exaggerated with over-the-top movements. You'd get completely hammered if you fought like that in a real fight situation.
The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.
A movie, it's like a very complicated timepiece. There's a lot of wheels in a watch. And some of those wheels, if they don't turn right, then, you know, the watch ain't gonna tell the time.
Working with Sylvester Stallone is beyond a 'pinch yourself' moment. I remember growing up watching his films.
I had such a good time working with Paul Feig on 'Spy.'
If we want to talk about the movies that have made an impact in what I do in the action realm - Bruce Lee in 'Enter the Dragon.' I've watched that countless times.
I could take my grandma and put her in a cape, and they'll put her on a green screen, and they'll have stunt doubles come in and do all the action. Anybody can do it. They're relying on stunt doubles and green screen and $200 million budgets - it's all CGI created. To me, it's not authentic.
When I was a kid, the people that used to push other people around, if someone whacked them, then they wouldn't be pushing people around again. But you can't really do that with adults.
I was running around and bouncing out of the pram as a baby.
All exercise releases endorphins and makes you feel good.
It's not like I am a junkie that wants to throw himself from very tall buildings, but some people are, and I love them kind of people.
Whatever you do, do it to the extreme.
Yeah, I'd make a decent Bond. But it'd be very, very different if I did it.
There's so many ways to play a bad guy, and usually people choose the obvious one.
You got to be careful mentioning people as great as Clint Eastwood. You can't put me in the same sentence as that man.
I remember the first time I saw Robert De Niro at a party. I didn't want to run over and shake his hand. I wanted to admire him from a distance. Later, I ended up making a movie with him, and that was fantastic.
I like a few vintage Rolexes, and Panerais are good. I'm not into sports watches - I like chronometers.
The best things in life sometimes happen spontaneously.
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.
I thought 'The Bank Job' was a really quality movie.
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.
At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car chase. Even if a lot of the people don't like it, there will be a lot of people that do. But bad comedy is just garbage.
Bruce Lee was just so lightning-fast. People try to emulate him in whatever way they can, but to try and do what he was doing... you're just inspired by it; you're not trying to say, 'Look, I can do that.' No one can do what he did.
