Quotes from Frank Grillo

My favorite movie is 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' with Clint Eastwood, a guy who gets his family killed by the bad guys then goes on a journey of revenge, eventually discovering himself - very existential.

'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is one of my top three movies.

What people don't know is that I'm a blackbelt in jujitsu, which I've been for 20 years, and I've been boxing since I've been 15 years old - those are things that come natural to me.

By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way.

I wrestled when I was a kid. That started me off with the discipline, because making weight was my responsibility. It is a team sport, but it is also a solo sport.

I love 'The Dirty Dozen.'

Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.

I can see parts of my father in 'Kingdom' when I rage like that. I can see my father's frustrations in his life.

I love Charles Bronson. He didn't have a lot of range, and he wasn't a great actor, but you couldn't take your eyes off him.

When you have Liam Neeson in a film, no matter how good everyone else is, it's a Liam Neeson film. And if there's wolves, and you're running, it's about Liam Neeson running from wolves.

I think if we live with more compassion globally, I think we would be in a better place. We've had more then we have had as human beings technology wise.

When I graduated college, I decided that I was going to try to be an actor, but it was my dirty secret.

I have a good work ethic.

Coming from immigrant Italian people, the one thing you do is work hard.

I don't look like Hollywood Guy. I'm a regular guy.

The things that make me saddest - when I got into my head - if anything were to happen to me, and my wife were to have to go to my kids and say 'Daddy's gone.' Worst thing I could imagine.

I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.

A tough guy, to me, stands for something, and he's not afraid to get a beating.

What I look for in a role is the physical. But what's the journey emotionally? Can I take this person who is this archetypal tough guy and find the beauty?

You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms.

The soap opera was so long ago - the thing about soap operas, and there's something to be said for doing it, but you do a script a day. I don't want to say it's a training ground; it really isn't, but what it does teach you is discipline.

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

A lot of times, especially with TV, I would get these scripts, and I'm like, 'Oh, they want me to be the good-looking guy who's a little bit of a rascal.' It's just boring.