Rana Daggubati Quotes

I love the role I'm playing in 'Conan.' I'm enjoying making the film tremendously. It's very physically demanding. You know, Conan is 28 years younger than me and a big dude, so I have to depend upon my wolf-like wiles to defeat this young bull.

I'm just trying to get my body in shape so that I can handle it. It's a very physically demanding thing. I've been doing it for 16 years, so I know what I'm going into now. I'm trying to stay calm and not panic.

To do all your own stunts, you have to be so strong.

I've been training with my mixed martial arts guy as much as I can when I'm back in L.A., so if I could do another movie like I did in 'The Killing Game,' with Samuel L. Jackson, that would be awesome.

One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love to do a Lara Croft type of thing that's really physical and tough. I want to have a gun and do martial arts. I would love to get paid to get into the best shape of my life.

And getting stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and everybody from the whole 'Bourne Supremacy' crew, I think was real cool for our film because we do a bunch of really big jumps in this movie.

With 'Survivor' - I didn't get any sleep, there was no food, we had to boil our water... plus, it was physically taxing during the day. That's what made it more difficult than three-a-day practices.

But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.

I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important.

We do the majority of what most athletes do. For example, as a badminton player, you have to be able to run a long distance and sprint. We do weights three times a week.

I lift weights and do as much cardio as I can make myself. I'm not a big cardio fan, and I hate doing legs.

The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.

I lift weights. I'll do a lot of running, a lot of cardio and strengthening. I use my body weight, a TRX sometimes. A lot of it is endurance.

Track and field is tougher physically, but golf is tougher mentally.

I do all of my own stunts in videos. The Jet Ski scenes, the fight scenes, all of them!

I have to stay in shape for the physical endeavour stunts I do. I work out a lot. I have a personal trainer. I go two or three times a week. I'm on a diet where I photograph everything I eat and send it to her.

I took karate classes for a few years. Taekwondo. I'd love to do a movie role where I could do some karate.

The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it.

With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.

Doing 'Kingsman' is such hard work. It's so physical and demanding.

You cannot expect to make an action movie without getting bruises.

The pre-CrossFit Rich Froning was a wuss.

Dancing is so brutally taxing on your body.

When we have a lot of the running, which we do on green screen, that is actually the hardest... I swear I have, like, four separate scenes in a row running, and I'd only done one at a time before.

The one thing I like to do is challenge my body, so I just transition between a bunch of different workouts all the time.