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I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my a...
OLGA FONDA I watch mostly every martial arts movie... I really like movies that aren't just martial arts. I...
TONY JAA When he was in his late 60s, he was still beating us young kids who thought we were hot stuff, but w...
DION SHIVELY![]()
I was raised doing martial arts.
VICTOR WEBSTER![]()
I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have ...
SCOTT ADKINS I realized my calling was to use the arts and ministry to help young people.
BEN HARNEY I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Fri...
CAMERON MONAGHAN I came from doing Wushu and other martial arts, and then I got into movies, and I had to learn that ...
DANIEL WU![]()
I'm a huge, huge lover of weaponry, of Japanese martial arts movies.
ANN NOCENTI I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart.
TONY JAA![]()
It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the f...
CHUCK NORRIS![]()
I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first mart...
ANG LEE I thought she was going to stuff me because she was coming right at my face. But I'm lucky I got it ...
LIZ GRUBER I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion.
LEO HOWARD In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try differ...
CAITY LOTZ![]()
I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavywei...
VIN DIESEL I wasn't always the most fashionable, and I would come to school with cauliflower ear and ringwo...
RONDA ROUSEY I've been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started ta...
DANIELLA ALONSO It's a full play for those who enjoy martial arts movies,
DAN FELLMAN![]()
I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunc...
HENRY CAVILL For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm...
OLGA FONDA I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want t...
TAMARA TAYLOR I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
DAKOTA GOYO If it isn't Martial Arts, Music, Poetry, Thought Provoking , GOD, or something that will help make m...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with t...
JOSHUA WAITZKIN![]()
I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats an...
BOB DOLE![]()
I knew that the UFC and that mixed martial arts in general was going to prosper because I was extrem...
BILL GOLDBERG When I was in school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too mascu...
RONDA ROUSEY I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I d...
LEO HOWARD I had always assumed that Alan was done with TV. I thought he was going to do movies, so we didn't e...
CAROLYN STRAUSS I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit lik...
CAITY LOTZ I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent and I thought would help further me along.
MATTHEW LILLARD I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.
CHRIS DAUGHTRY![]()
I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do...
ALAN BALL I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.
KATHERYN WINNICK You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
CAM GIGANDET![]()
Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his ...
JET LI I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an ...
GABRIELLE UNION![]()
Martial arts is what pulled me through tough times, and it is one of the reasons for my happiness.
TIGER SHROFF When I was a young kid, my father was a big fan of Hollywood movies. He would make me watch movies w...
LEE BYUNG-HUN![]()
When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd real...
DOLPH LUNDGREN![]()
I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujits...
BOOBOO STEWART I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
GAIL PORTER![]()
As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial ...
JACKIE CHAN I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV...
COLIN QUINN![]()
Regular martial arts is traditional, with no music and no flips choreograhed into it. But extreme ma...
TAYLOR LAUTNER I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, ...
ANDY MURRAY![]()
Martial arts was really the first thing in my life that I followed through on and accomplished a deg...
CHUCK NORRIS![]()
I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother co...
NOBU MATSUHISA I was in the goal but it hadn't yet registered that I could play the ball (with my hands). It in no ...
BETH DELLIPRISCOLI Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really m...
GREG CIPES Being a "Walter Mitty" in the martial arts is popular, but it is not practical.
ROBERTO TORRES LIFESTYLE TRAINER![]()
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the rig...
BRUCE LEE I thought over and over about what I was going to do when Carly overdosed and died. How would we go ...
DINA KUCERA I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had t...
ZIYI ZHANG![]()
Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker.
MILLA JOVOVICH![]()
To be stuck with that Kardashian label, that was so hurtful to me and to my career. I probably reali...
ADRIENNE BAILON I was moved that he visited Japan only because of his late father's wish. I cherish that martial art...
SHOEN FUKUDA I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high...
ICE CUBE![]()
When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worke...
JAMES FRANCO![]()
I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket.
JASON RITTER Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memori...
NATHAN KRESS 'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The ...
M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN When I was little I used to see Godzilla all the time on TV, ... I just remember him knocking things...
MATTHEW BRODERICK I used to be in arts and stuff. But I never was encouraged to...I was...aimed toward the sciences.
JON FAVREAU![]()
When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawin...
MICHEL FABER I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a...
CAMERON CROWE When I was growing up, I used to watch 'Power Rangers' and 'Ninja Turtles.' It seeme...
ASHTON EATON I was scared 'cause I thought I was going to come up here and mess up. I thought I would not focus b...
DESARAE GARLAND I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts...
CAMERON MONAGHAN I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I wou...
LAURA OSNES![]()
For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.
BRANDON LEE![]()
Growing up, my inspirations were Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, all these martial arts legends. I wanted to...
TIGER SHROFF I used to be so self-centered and only thought about my own little world and what was going on in it...
DEBRA ROBERTS As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later ...
CAROL W. GREIDER![]()
When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did judo, so I went along because I felt like I was mis...
SCOTT ADKINS I was a dancer for about 14 years. I was a martial artist for the same amount of time. I quit that w...
FALK HENTSCHEL I thought it was some local TV crew. They started talking to me and my dad. Then they asked me quest...
DUCKMANN JR When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it.
ALEXIS SMITH I'm not really a child of this '120 TV channels, a billion websites' era. I tried to liv...
BILL CALLAHAN I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19...
LAURA VANDERVOORT![]()
I'm going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I'm going to change the game. I'm go...
CONOR MCGREGOR The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my riv...
JOSHUA WAITZKIN Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.
BO BENNETT The one time I had a moment of clarity was when my mom told me my soul was dying. I remember just sc...
ANDREA PUMPER![]()
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biol...
BOB SCHIEFFER![]()
My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I c...
AKSHAY KUMAR My doctor told me I was going to be marginal at this test and he'd given me some hope that maybe I w...
DOUG MACDONALD But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.
ANTOINE FUQUA![]()
It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two y...
AKSHAY KUMAR I was thinking around the clouds, and I was hoping you wouldn't bring me down. And I was wandering i...
NATE RAMER No, no, I thought it was going to take me a while. I said that I wanted to score the number on my je...
TELYSHIA ADAMS![]()
I'm a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age ...
PAUL WALKER![]()
For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.
BRANDON LEE I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
LAURA VANDERVOORT I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interes...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO![]()
Years ago I had realized I was blaming myself for it. People and doctors would tell me it wasn't my ...
ROBERT ANTHONY I moved to California when I was twelve and I got a video camera and made little movies because I di...
DYLAN O'BRIEN![]()
I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn'...
NICK HORNBY It was devastating watching on TV and not being able to do anything. A lot was going on in my mind a...
BARRY CRYER
OLGA FONDA I watch mostly every martial arts movie... I really like movies that aren't just martial arts. I...
TONY JAA When he was in his late 60s, he was still beating us young kids who thought we were hot stuff, but w...
DION SHIVELY
I was raised doing martial arts. VICTOR WEBSTER
I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have ... SCOTT ADKINS I realized my calling was to use the arts and ministry to help young people.
BEN HARNEY I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Fri...
CAMERON MONAGHAN I came from doing Wushu and other martial arts, and then I got into movies, and I had to learn that ...
DANIEL WU
I'm a huge, huge lover of weaponry, of Japanese martial arts movies. ANN NOCENTI I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart.
TONY JAA
It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the f... CHUCK NORRIS
I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first mart... ANG LEE I thought she was going to stuff me because she was coming right at my face. But I'm lucky I got it ...
LIZ GRUBER I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion.
LEO HOWARD In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try differ...
CAITY LOTZ
I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavywei... VIN DIESEL I wasn't always the most fashionable, and I would come to school with cauliflower ear and ringwo...
RONDA ROUSEY I've been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started ta...
DANIELLA ALONSO It's a full play for those who enjoy martial arts movies,
DAN FELLMAN
I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunc... HENRY CAVILL For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm...
OLGA FONDA I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want t...
TAMARA TAYLOR I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
DAKOTA GOYO If it isn't Martial Arts, Music, Poetry, Thought Provoking , GOD, or something that will help make m...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with t...
JOSHUA WAITZKIN
I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats an... BOB DOLE
I knew that the UFC and that mixed martial arts in general was going to prosper because I was extrem... BILL GOLDBERG When I was in school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too mascu...
RONDA ROUSEY I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I d...
LEO HOWARD I had always assumed that Alan was done with TV. I thought he was going to do movies, so we didn't e...
CAROLYN STRAUSS I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit lik...
CAITY LOTZ I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent and I thought would help further me along.
MATTHEW LILLARD I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.
CHRIS DAUGHTRY
I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do... ALAN BALL I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.
KATHERYN WINNICK You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
CAM GIGANDET
Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his ... JET LI I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an ...
GABRIELLE UNION
Martial arts is what pulled me through tough times, and it is one of the reasons for my happiness. TIGER SHROFF When I was a young kid, my father was a big fan of Hollywood movies. He would make me watch movies w...
LEE BYUNG-HUN
When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd real... DOLPH LUNDGREN
I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujits... BOOBOO STEWART I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
GAIL PORTER
As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial ... JACKIE CHAN I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV...
COLIN QUINN
Regular martial arts is traditional, with no music and no flips choreograhed into it. But extreme ma... TAYLOR LAUTNER I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, ...
ANDY MURRAY
Martial arts was really the first thing in my life that I followed through on and accomplished a deg... CHUCK NORRIS
I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother co... NOBU MATSUHISA I was in the goal but it hadn't yet registered that I could play the ball (with my hands). It in no ...
BETH DELLIPRISCOLI Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really m...
GREG CIPES Being a "Walter Mitty" in the martial arts is popular, but it is not practical.
ROBERTO TORRES LIFESTYLE TRAINER
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the rig... BRUCE LEE I thought over and over about what I was going to do when Carly overdosed and died. How would we go ...
DINA KUCERA I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had t...
ZIYI ZHANG
Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker. MILLA JOVOVICH
To be stuck with that Kardashian label, that was so hurtful to me and to my career. I probably reali... ADRIENNE BAILON I was moved that he visited Japan only because of his late father's wish. I cherish that martial art...
SHOEN FUKUDA I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high...
ICE CUBE
When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worke... JAMES FRANCO
I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket. JASON RITTER Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memori...
NATHAN KRESS 'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The ...
M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN When I was little I used to see Godzilla all the time on TV, ... I just remember him knocking things...
MATTHEW BRODERICK I used to be in arts and stuff. But I never was encouraged to...I was...aimed toward the sciences.
JON FAVREAU
When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawin... MICHEL FABER I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a...
CAMERON CROWE When I was growing up, I used to watch 'Power Rangers' and 'Ninja Turtles.' It seeme...
ASHTON EATON I was scared 'cause I thought I was going to come up here and mess up. I thought I would not focus b...
DESARAE GARLAND I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts...
CAMERON MONAGHAN I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I wou...
LAURA OSNES
For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline. BRANDON LEE
Growing up, my inspirations were Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, all these martial arts legends. I wanted to... TIGER SHROFF I used to be so self-centered and only thought about my own little world and what was going on in it...
DEBRA ROBERTS As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later ...
CAROL W. GREIDER
When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did judo, so I went along because I felt like I was mis... SCOTT ADKINS I was a dancer for about 14 years. I was a martial artist for the same amount of time. I quit that w...
FALK HENTSCHEL I thought it was some local TV crew. They started talking to me and my dad. Then they asked me quest...
DUCKMANN JR When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it.
ALEXIS SMITH I'm not really a child of this '120 TV channels, a billion websites' era. I tried to liv...
BILL CALLAHAN I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19...
LAURA VANDERVOORT
I'm going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I'm going to change the game. I'm go... CONOR MCGREGOR The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my riv...
JOSHUA WAITZKIN Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.
BO BENNETT The one time I had a moment of clarity was when my mom told me my soul was dying. I remember just sc...
ANDREA PUMPER
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biol... BOB SCHIEFFER
My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I c... AKSHAY KUMAR My doctor told me I was going to be marginal at this test and he'd given me some hope that maybe I w...
DOUG MACDONALD But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.
ANTOINE FUQUA
It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two y... AKSHAY KUMAR I was thinking around the clouds, and I was hoping you wouldn't bring me down. And I was wandering i...
NATE RAMER No, no, I thought it was going to take me a while. I said that I wanted to score the number on my je...
TELYSHIA ADAMS
I'm a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age ... PAUL WALKER
For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline. BRANDON LEE I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
LAURA VANDERVOORT I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interes...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO
Years ago I had realized I was blaming myself for it. People and doctors would tell me it wasn't my ... ROBERT ANTHONY I moved to California when I was twelve and I got a video camera and made little movies because I di...
DYLAN O'BRIEN
I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn'... NICK HORNBY It was devastating watching on TV and not being able to do anything. A lot was going on in my mind a...
BARRY CRYER
