Quotes About Dedication

To be a legend, we have to make a lot of right moves and great music.

When I was on 'Xena,' I remember the sound guy and the director at some point being like, you have to make sounds when you fight, and I was like, what are you talking about? You're never going to use it. But they hounded me for a good couple of hours, and basically it was, you need to act, you can't just perform the moves.

When I worked on 'Xena' I had to concentrate on fighting like Lucy Lawless. In 'Kill Bill' I not only had to stop fighting like Lucy, after three years of copying her moves, but start fighting like a Wu Shu martial artist. I'd never done Wu Shu before so mentally it was a massive challenge.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar's life. That is something I'm looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

Sometimes, despite your best efforts, the end result does not match the expectations. '10 Enradhukulla' is still a movie very close to my heart.

I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.

We always set out to just make a great movie.

Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

I am not one of those actors who will abandon my flagship serial, my main claim to fame, just because I've done a hit movie.

I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.

Once you know how to make a movie, you can't not make a movie.

I got into the movie business because of 'Days of Heaven.'

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

I'm not an actor who is trying to be a movie star.

I don't think I am an action movie star now; I've just done a couple of action movies! I'm just so respectful of the people that have come before me and the hard work they've put in.

I know I'm not a hotly in-demand movie star, but I'm good at my job. And I want to keep working for the next 40 years.

A composer's a pretty lonely life. When people talk about premieres and movie star - no. We sit in a dark room and spend a lot of time alone.

Wherever I go, I have a basketball with me. I used to dribble a basketball down the street to the movie theater, to the mall.

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

My entire life was making movies.