“The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can’t jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.”

My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

We do today what they won’t, so tomorrow we accomplish what they can’t.

Change doesn’t begin when we get knocked on our ass. It begins the moment we decide to get back up on our own feet.

I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.

Be the person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, “awe s***.. they’re up”.

I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it.

As long as I can do something that I am passionate about and that I can really enjoy and the audience can enjoy. That is where my enthusiasm comes from.

BLOOD, SWEAT & RESPECT. First two you GIVE. Last one you EARN.

In life we get an opportunity to do some cool things, and some things that are fun and that we like doing.

I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

That’s a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It’s great.

The whole idea is just to continue to make movies that I enjoy playing and that audiences are going to enjoy me in just to put out quality on a lot of different levels.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains.

It’s important for everybody to creatively honor him in the best way that we possibly can.

Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.

Be firm on principle but flexible on method.

We should never finish a 20 year program in two years.

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

Everybody shut up. Let us work.

Whatever you build, build with care. Anyone who has built something big, has done it with care.

I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.