I'm not afraid to go up to people and pick their brains and ask for advice. To me, that's how you get better. That's how I've gotten better at everything I've ever done. Don't be too proud to ask for help.
If you're pursuing something that you love and you're learning something new, every day, that's the key to youth [staying young].
Money Talks. Chocolate Sings.
I'm a poor kid from the streets. What I've been able to achieve has really just been through hard work and not letting anyone tell me that I couldn't do something. I always try to encourage people to just pursue your dreams.
Nothing can motivate me any more than I'm motivated.
I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.
For some reason, I struggle seeing myself as a leading man.
I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that's not who I am - not as a person, as a character. It's not who I intend to be.
Basketballs dont hold grudges!
I didn't want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor. Because acting is what I fell in love with, and acting is what is still challenging for me.
People look at me, and they have a certain perception, and they slap a label on me. The guy you saw in a wrestling ring is not who I am.
Kissing babies and hugging fat girls.
I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.
It's much easier when you have your co-workers who are just, they're there in the moment. If you were out of the moment, you would feel odd.
I'm creating my niche. My niche is going to be "shirtless guy."
I spent my whole life being very shy and introverted and I kind of found my release and therapy in the gym. I became this big, menacing physical stature of a man but internally I'm still kind of insecure. Warm, fuzzy and gooey.
If I could get myself to a place where I felt secure and I wouldn't have to kind of worry about money and I know my family would be secure, then I would leave the big studios so I could continue to make smaller films, and hopefully get to direct a few of them, too.
I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.
I'm more a fan of old-school films with really interesting stories and good performances. That's what I'd like to do.
It's never boring in makeup.
In wrestling there are so many people inside and outside the ring, and it's so live, and it's this whole adrenaline thing. Whereas you move it into this more intimate thing, everything gets all quiet, someone says action, and you have to say the lines and make the words your own. It couldn't be any more different and it's weird sometimes trying to explain that to people. When I tell people that acting is much more terrifying to me than going out in front of ten thousand people, they don't quite believe it because for some reason that intimacy is just terrifying to me.
I was an amateur wrestler, which I loved. It was my passion, but I started really late; I was a junior in high school when I began.
I really feel like indie films are where I learn to be a better actor, especially because they always give you a bit more freedom to collaborate.
I love playing different characters. I just do. I want to play even more quirky and interesting characters and just something that people wouldn't automatically think that I would be. I want to go against the grain a bit and I'm hoping people will be open-minded enough to cast me in stuff that's going against the grain.
The worst injury I have ever suffered in the ring was a torn triceps; they had to take a piece of my hamstring to repair the tear. It was brutal; I was out for 6 months.
