Rutina Wesley Quotes

The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.

My thighs were huge; they were like rock! Growing up, I was really athletic, and I had a very athletic body.

It wasn't until 'Thor' that I started lifting weights. It was all pretty new to me.

I had to wear that suit, so I put in my required time in the gym. But I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into.

It's funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but its a lot of work to look like this and to be in this kind of condition.

I never started bodybuilding because I thought I'm not big enough, I'm not strong enough.

When I first started training, I guess the fact that I was undersized, it just didn't register initially. Obviously, I knew I wasn't huge and there were some bigger guys in the territories at the time, but I guess I never looked at it as a hinderance.

For 'Baahubali,' I gained eight or nine kilos for the warrior look. But for 'Saaho,' I didn't need look like that.

I lift weights. It's one of the reasons I get up so early.

When I first started working with Victoria's Secret, I wanted to get stronger. That was something I wanted to build on and really be as strong and powerful as I could be. Working with Victoria's Secret, I started really thinking about my body and my muscles.

I was 160lbs when I started and I went up to 195lbs. There were no steroids. But it was hard work, dedication, hitting the gym. You kind of see it.

People ask me how I sang the role of the 'Phantom' 1,700 times. And I say that it's down to good material. If it did not have good material, I would have had a major problem doing it for that length of time.

I try and work out at least six times a week with my trainer because that's important for my body type, which is so different from a typical Indian boy.

As long as I'm in good physical shape, that's a passion for me, to be physically fit. That's the main thing now, the look is secondary. But I think I look OK, not too bad for a 55 year old.

I could have been Mr. America if I wanted to be, but I chose wrestling. I could have played pro-football, but I chose wrestling.

I realized in myself, look, I'm a small guy. I'm never going to be 250 pounds - I'm never going to be 6'5'' - but I can get as jacked and as lean as humanly possible.

I remember when I was young, before we started lifting and working out, I looked like I was bench-pressing other humans. I looked different than other girls. I had to be OK with the fact that I had a strong physique, no matter if people looked at me in an accepting way or not.

I was actually going to school to be a chiropractor but was also succeeding at bodybuilding - I did well in a few national contests.

I'm strong, but my arms are skinny; they're never going to get big and bulky like a football player.

When you start to ascertain a physique, you run that thing where you don't want to lose it. It catches you; it's like a hook.

I don't have a muscle body. I don't have a chiseled frame.

I don't have big muscles.

I'm looking like Atlas, not Professor Klump.

One of my biggest drawbacks is my inability to maintain my physique. I put on weight for 'Soodhu Kavvum' and never managed to shed it. Luckily, that look suited a few films, including 'Orange Mittai.'