Olivia Thirlby Quotes

I love feeling like I'm inhabiting the body of a ninja, like I could rob a liquor store with my bare hands if I wanted to.

When I get finished with fighting, I hope they ask the same questions. It's not my purpose to answer them. Boxing is the art of self-defense. I knock 'em out the first chance I get.

This is a man's sport. I fight.

I love the sport. I love fighting. Fighting is my life.

I've knocked out a lot of my opponents.

I know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.

In 'The Condemned,' if you saw the movie, that's all me; I'll go toe to toe with anyone in an action movie.

I had started also studying because I wanted to learn more about power and fighting.

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

As much as they'll let me I do my own stunts and I do all my own fighting.

I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.

I never fought in my life outside of a ring.

I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.

If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?

I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

I've never played a character where I've had so much fun on the physical end. I don't want to say I like it too much but it's fun having a gun on you and getting to manhandle men.

I love doing the fight stuff. It's the best.

I put a lot of fire in my punches.

I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.