Quotes

I'm an observer - a watcher of movies my whole life.

I've been overlooked, praised, questioned, lauded, labeled, celebrated, and derided - sometimes all in the span of a single week. That's life in the NFL.

People say, 'Oh, you're famous now, so you must go to L.A.' - I don't live in L.A. now - but it's like, why wouldn't you? The weather is amazing, the film industry's there, it's a great quality of life.

Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.

The life of an actor is sort of abnormal in the sense where you never know what's going to happen, which I've really given over to.

I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new sports like slope style skiing and snowboarding, it is going to breathe new life into them and attract a whole new crowd.

I like to think that faith has been a part of my life since I was a lot younger. It's definitely a part of my athletic career. I always wear a cross on my goggles during contests when I'm doing something gnarly. It's a reminder that I've got someone else helping me out.

In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.

In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.

An enormous amount of a writer's life is performance. I find myself wondering, at the moment, whether I do too much of it.

I have wide interests outside the professional fighting lifestyle: music, cars, tattooing, clothes, fashion, world culture and so on.

In a way, novel writing is such a permanently student lifestyle. When it comes to movies, and you have to go to these meetings and try and impress people and get money out of them, I feel as though I'm playacting at being somebody who's grown up.

The truth is, in the ring you live a heightened life.

Martial Arts will always be part of my life.

I'm a lifelong martial artist and to have an arena to test my skills is essential for me.

I've always been able to enjoy aspects of my life.

You can't really ask for anything more than to be working for your entire life - and to be doing something that some people respond to.

If you're 22 and got everything you want, what are you going to write about for the rest of your life?

Home was extremely normal. But my dad's life was quite exotic, really. When I went away to stay with him, it was a different world. I never wanted to be in that world. I was much happier with my mates at home.

All the Oscars stuff for 'An Education' was incredibly exciting, especially because it was such an underdog project - no one would give us the money for it, and we all nearly gave up because it wasn't getting anywhere, then suddenly a breakthrough and this really lovely film, which then took on a life of its own.

I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.