Rupert Friend Quotes

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 could definitely take someone out with my bare hands.

Martial arts in general were not made for a tournament, for points system. Martial arts were made to defend yourself in the street fight situation, not to score points.

My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.

If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.

When I was doing 'Generation Kill' in Africa I worked with five really super-trained Navy SEALs who taught us all these moves like how to disarm people: if there's a bar fight and someone's got a chair or there's someone with a gun behind our head, how to disable them and take them down in a swift move.

I think my fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson.

Hey, I took karate when I was 17 years old; I am dangerous.

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.

I started studying Jeet Kune Do in my early 20s.

Everybody wants to be a good fighter.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. My hands are too small, and look at these short arms.

Henri Hooft has made my hands and feet deadly weapons.

In a street fight situation, there's no weight division, there's no time limits.

It's interesting because my Mixed Martial Arts upbringing is less Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the traditional thing that people study.

You look into an encyclopedia and ask what fighter can do any type of martial art at a high-caliber level, my picture will show up.

I think, as a fighter, I kept improving. My movements improved, my accuracy improved.

I'm a completely evolved fighter.

I have done martial arts my whole life, so it comes easily, but I have never done proper sword fighting.

You can hit the bags, the pads, and you can run and do your fitness and your weights as much as you want, but if you don't spar you just don't have that true experience, that true knowledge of how to beat a man in one-on-one combat.

I trained in kick-boxing and Muay Thai.

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

I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught.

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.