“I don’t worry about overexposure [in work], I think it’s important just to go in, and think about quality work and try to put the best movies out.”

When you walk up to opportunities door, don’t knock it, Kick that B*tch in, smile and introduce yourself

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

Our reputations precedes us. If I know someone is not nice, not kind, an asshole – I generally don’t want to work with them.

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.

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.

It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.

I played against the Brazilians in ’82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.

You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.

The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.