JASON STATHAM

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.

Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding.

It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.

If someone's got a fear of heights, they'd probably say, well, hanging off a helicopter at 3,000 feet above downtown L.A. would be the scariest. For me, that's a day's work, something I was very happy to do.

I just gravitate to those more testosterone-filled sort of parts than me playing something a bit more fairy-like.

I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back.

The oil sequence was about two or three days. It was very cold and was snowing.

I'm more into MMA than any other sport. I watch a lot of the UFC fights. I have since it first came onto the scene.

I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready.

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

I'm certainly not Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.

Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set, and you're working out, you're going to feel good.

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

People like to pigeonhole you.

Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained.

When I go to the cinema I watch all different kinds of films.

I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.

A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly, you've got a chance of something else, but sometimes it just doesn't work that way. Ideally, it's insurance for the future; if you can do something, if you can find a character that people really do like, then you're very lucky.

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.