“I’m very low-key. I don’t really blend in, so it’s difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it’s a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home.”

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.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

The philosophy has always been pretty clean and straightforward, which is that if I see something that I like and I can see it’s value to the audience and it’s value to me then I’m going to take my shot at it regardless at the genre.

You are a dream that makes it difficult to get up in the morning.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don’t like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn’t work. Some movie I don’t like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.

Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don’t face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.

When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There’s something that might be called the ‘graduate student syndrome’; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.

The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves.

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.