“If you’re going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.”

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.

One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.

There’s so much noise that’s happening in our world, but the little voice that you’ve always got to listen to is your gut and your intuition, and you can do things and go beyond boundaries, if you to trust that gut and instinct.

One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.

Comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else.

If I talked I would become like any other comedian.

I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.

I don’t do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it’s funny, it’s funny.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.

The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.

I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.