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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
As a martial arts promoter and as a fan of martial arts, you go, 'What would happen if this guy fought this guy?'
My whole life, I've been training for something, whether it be baseball or football or wrestling or martial arts.
Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.
I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some martial arts experience.
I grew up learning martial arts in Korea; my dad actually brought in an Olympic instructor to teach me as a teenager.
That's the beautiful thing about mixed martial arts - and I'll tell people that - you have to think outside of the box.
Actually, I have never been a great fan of martial arts competitions. Not even when I was training martial arts myself.
More entertainers should come forward to support sports. I'd love to see Akshay Kumar in a film on Indian martial arts.
My father was the first person to introduce me to self-defense and martial arts, which I've been doing all my life now.
I was a pretty fit and physical kid, and my first interest was in martial arts and kung fu with all the Bruce Lee movies.
I haven't had a chance really to do a martial arts role, but I really want to. I want to act like Jackie Chan in a movie.
I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts.
I have always had a heavy built and have been into all sorts of physical activities like weight training and martial arts.
Compared to boxing, acting is more difficult. I have learnt martial arts and boxing since childhood. So, they were easier.
If you do something and it saves your life, it was good taijutsu. In a real fight, you aren't worried about what's pretty.
When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities.
Martial arts was really the first thing in my life that I followed through on and accomplished a degree of proficiency for.
I love my martial arts and action movies. They give another dimension to the acting world: the emotional plus the physical.
My becoming an actor wasn't planned. My interest always lied in sports such as football, martial arts, gymnastics and dance.
Mixed martial arts has small windows of opportunity and there's always new faces coming through, so it's easy to forget you.
I know what martial arts have done for me. They've taught me integrity, self-control, perseverance and an indomitable spirit.
Most of my good friends have fights with me. Those guys know that I was in martial arts for 12 years fighting on the circuit.
I started very young... I learned my martial arts first in the street. There were always fights. That's the culture in Brazil.
I used to go to fights in Japan, mega shows at soccer stadiums. They would have all kinds of martial arts fights in one night.
Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.
Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen.
I got trained in kick-boxing and mixed martial arts. I enjoyed the whole process so much, and I'd love to do more action films.
I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.
I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I do all kinds of different martial arts.
When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?
I've been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.
It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.
I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
But wrestling used to be the same as boxing or mixed martial arts. It used to be about conflict, having a fight, who's going to win.
The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.
A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn't worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts.
You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.
Once you are trained in the international martial arts, your body and mind become toned permanently. You can take on any action role.
I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.
I'm going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I'm going to change the game. I'm going to change the way people approach fighting.
I've studied martial arts, but of course I'm not anywhere near the level of my father. Still, people assume I'm a lethal weapon anyway!
The thing I hate about mixed martial arts is that it's no longer a sport. It's a big-money business, and it's an entertainment industry.
It's interesting because my Mixed Martial Arts upbringing is less Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the traditional thing that people study.
I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.
I'm training in martial arts. It's a whole new world for me and I'm loving it. I do that or hot yoga; I have to do some kind of exercise.
I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.
I don't care about being the champ champ. I want to be the only consecutive 12-time defending champion in any mixed martial arts promotion.