Henry Mancini Quotes

I don't know if I necessarily fit in the action-thriller genre, but I'd love to do something where I could actually kick some butt and then tell a few jokes. That would be awesome! That would be my dream job.

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.

I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some martial arts experience.

I'm looking to do an action film where I can run with my shirt off and a gun in my hand; and do like a 'Taken' role and get up on one knee and kill the bad guy.

Yakima Canutt was famously John Wayne's stunt double, and in the Western movie 'Stagecoach,' there is a fantastic scene where there are some horses thundering along, pulling a carriage. He climbs out onto the horses and drops down underneath them, so he's being dragged along, and then he lets go.

Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.

I jumped off a cliff backwards for 'I Am Number Four,' which was pretty cool. I'd never done that before. It took seven takes from different angles and luckily there were no injuries. I came close, though. My head nearly hit the rock at one point.

When I read the scene where I'm actually chainsawing my way out of the belly of a shark, how could a guy turn that down when that's in the job description?

Being offered the role in the Jackie Chan film was amazing. I got to do a fight scene with Jackie Chan.

When you go into a 'WWE' ring, you know you're going to compete. You know that things are going to hurt. It is a dangerous, dangerous place. No matter what people think or say, it's a very, very dangerous thing.

I don't think I've ever been called up for an action film with a male lead - which is a shame. I'd love to take on Bond.

I want to play a character that would require a lot of special training, like in a full-fledged action film.

'Ghazi' has underwater stunts and was physically taxing. That added to my cardio routine.

There are actors that come in and do a fight sequence, but when they have to fall on the ground or take a tag to the belly a bit too hard, they're shocked at how real it is.

I've always enjoyed the big stunt scenes that I've had - from the barn fire when I first started in 'Emmerdale,' to years later when Victoria started a fire and Andy had to rescue people.

I would love to be the lead in an action movie. I would love to be like Emily Blunt in 'Edge of Tomorrow.'

I was the highest-paid stuntman in the world.

When 'I' released, I gave a couple of interviews in which I expressed my interest to play an action heroine.

In my mind, I'm not scary at all. I'm channeling my inner Cary Grant!

While I was filming 'Kong' - and I don't play a very capable Army Ranger in 'Kong'; I play a completely different character - but we had a lot of Army Rangers there, former Army Rangers, and Navy SEALs, who were working on the movie with us for the other characters, for the Army guys in the movie.

Yes, generally speaking, I get to do my own stunts.

We have no George Pattons anymore. We have no Ulysses S. Grants. We have none of the swashbuckling generals that actually made things happen.

I wish someone would make an Indian equivalent of 'Kill Bill' with me. That would be awesome.

I'd like to be in an action movie.

It was a dream of mine to be in an action film.