Scott Adkins Quotes

• I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will.

  Scott Adkins

  Trying, Bars, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.

  Scott Adkins

  Fighter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot.

  Scott Adkins

  Character, Guy, Tough

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I turned to my mom and said, Im going to be a martial arts movie star. She didnt believe me, and neither did my dad. They both thought I would grow out of it. That it was a phase. I decided then I was going to do it or die trying.

  Scott Adkins

  Mom, Art, Stars

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• I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.

  Scott Adkins

  Play, Villain, Antiheroes

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I think every red-blooded male enjoys brandishing a firearm.

  Scott Adkins

  Thinking, Males, Red

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whenever you're looking at new ways to get in shape, first you have to decide what you want. Do you want a more muscular look, or do you want to slim down and appear more toned and ripped? I adapt my training and diet with each role I do, depending on the image I want to convey.

  Scott Adkins

  Training, Roles, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They don't mind getting punched in the face and, more importantly, they don't mind punching other people in the face. I'm just about the movies; I enjoy the dexterity of actors in action movies and the choreography side of things. You've just got to be a different person to be a professional fighter. I train with professional fighters so I know what it takes. It's a very difficult profession, probably harder then the acting profession.

  Scott Adkins

  People, Mind, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do find violence entertaining, but that doesn't make me a bad person. I grew up watching all these action films when I was a kid. My dad would bring back 'Rambo' and whatever, and we'd watch it together. It's not affected me in any way other than I just appreciate the entertainment value of violence on film.

  Scott Adkins

  Dad, Kids, Appreciate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The genre of '80s action movies, I think, changed really when The Matrix came out and Keanu Reeves was able to perform kung fu. Then you had Matt Damon in the Bourne films, doing a great job. So it's different now, they can train actors to do their own fights convincingly on screen, so those guys aren't needed anymore. But I think everything goes around in circles; people still do want to see the guys that can do stuff for real, that's why The Expendables is so popular. I think it will come back again.

  Scott Adkins

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Im always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in El Gringo; it shows in the new Universal Soldier. You cant rest on your laurels; youve got to keep improving.

  Scott Adkins

  Thinking, Skills, Always Trying

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• In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.

  Scott Adkins

  Thinking, Influence, Film

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• My first break was in a Hong Kong movie that I shot in China - I was going out there and working as a western stunt man, if you like, but at the same time in England I was working in daytime soap stuff. Eventually I put the two together.

  Scott Adkins

  Men, Two, Together

  "Scott Adkins, An Indisputable Action Star". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2012.

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• I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have for martial arts, so when I was 18 years old, I started studying performing arts with the eye of getting into the film industry and went to drama school after that.

  Scott Adkins

  Art, Drama, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Scott Adkins

  Art, Fighting, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'll be honest, I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be quite cheesy unless you do them in feudal Japan.

  Scott Adkins

  Thinking, Japan, Ideas

  "Interview with Ninja II Shadow of a Tear star Scott Adkins". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. January 3, 2014.

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• When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did JUDO so I went along because I felt like I was missing out. They eventually gave up and I continued, then moved into Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing and various other martial arts. I did lots of different things, but mostly things like Wushu, Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga and stuff like that.

  Scott Adkins

  Art, Brother, Dad

  "Interview with Ninja II Shadow of a Tear star Scott Adkins". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. January 3, 2014.

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• I just remember Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen, and I thought to myself, Thats what I want to do for a living when Im older. Bruce Lee was so magnetic and charismatic and held the screen so well.

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  Mind, Want, Remember

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was about 10 years old. I just remember the film Enter the Dragon with Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen and I thought to myself, "That's what I want to do for a living when I'm older." Bruce Lee was so magnetic and charismatic and held the screen so well. It's just a very powerful performance in that film. That's the first memory I have - him in that movie.

  Scott Adkins

  Memories, Powerful, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was weird working with all of them - Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris. There's a sequence in the movie where myself and Jean-Claude Van Damme are running through this airport and there's this silhouette behind this big screen - it smashes, and there you see Schwarzenegger, Stallone, and Bruce Willis all firing their weapons at me and Jean-Claude. It's kind of surreal when you think about it, the three '80s icons of action movies, unloading as many bullets as they could at us. It's pretty crazy.

  Scott Adkins

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been typecast. People don't want to take a risk or a chance. Quite a few times they've come up to me and say "We want you to do that Russian accent." And I'll be like, "How about if I do an Irish accent or a South African accent," and they don't trust that you can properly pull them off.

  Scott Adkins

  People, Risk, Chance

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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