As an actor, you use the things from yourself that you can apply to the character.
Sex is emotion in motion.
Fighting is very physical and extreme and you're very vulnerable. It's a very mental type of thing.
Bobsledders are big athletes, and I'm a big athlete.
It has been my experience that the greatest performers in the genre of sports-entertainment are usually natural extensions of their own, true personality.
At my height, I've got to be fast.
What is important to me as an actor is that, even if I have to spread my arms, take my shirt off on a mountain top with my heroine in a chiffon sari, it still has to be me and my twist or my funny take on it.
I've got a good first step and things of that nature. So it's just about using your body to make the defense play at your tempo and react to you.
I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.
While dancing you have to be feminine, and performing action requires you to be masculine.
Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.
I'm just a normal fellow who gets punched in the face for a living and gets punched really hard at times as well. But you know what? I'm all right at punching them back.
Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso was always bemused by our enthusiasm for tackling, because he saw it as the last resort.
With what we were doing in ECW, the first thing you had to overcome was the fear of getting hurt.
This is a contact sport. It's always been a contact sport, especially late in the race.
Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film.
We play a contact sport, and it's aggressive, and you have to be aggressive in everything you do.
You can't tap somebody in the helmet and say, 'Go be physical.' If you're not physical, you can't play physical, and that's a big part of what we believe in.
When it comes to power, we know I got power, and we know I can wrestle.
I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.
I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.
My genetic make-up is one of physicality. I'm a visceral guy.
Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.
People say that Rooney could have been like Lionel Messi, a more prolific goalscorer who dribbles past opponents more. But they are different characters. You will never see Messi snapping around the heels of an opponent to win the ball back deep in his own half. Wayne does that all the time, and sometimes that enthusiasm will count against him.
