Saqib Saleem Quotes

The funny thing is, I've never really hurt myself in an action movie. I've done 'Wanted,' 'X-Men,' 'Welcome To The Punch,' even 'Trance' to a certain extent has little bits of action and stuff, but I've never really hurt myself at all - not even like a sprained ankle.

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.

I have a real taste for doing action roles. I starred in a movie called 'Blast,' which was my first action film, and I loved the fighting - I think I've got the build, the attitude and the look for it.

Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines.

I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.

On 'Angel' I got to work a lot with Mike Massa, who was David Boreanaz' stunt double, and Mike would let me do most of my stuff by myself. I did almost all my fight scenes by myself.

I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.

I watch action movies, and you don't remember when Jason Statham does a kick or punch. It's character trait stuff you remember.

Jason Statham is one of my favorites. I've watched basically every single one of his action movies, and they're all creative.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.

I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.

People would come to me and say, 'Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?' At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie.

I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.

I would just love to do something where I'd have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now.

I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.

Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.

'Immortals' is all action. I love action movies. That's really where I want to spearhead my career.

For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.

I'd love to do 'The Expendables.' It's just a kick in the pants.

I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' came out, I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'

I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me do. I think that's easy for me.

When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.

I'm actually doing more stunts for 'Maze Runner' than I did for 'Insurgent.'