Quotes by Frank Grillo - Page 1

I have a good work ethic.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Good Work
Work Ethic
Work Good Good Work
Ethic
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I love 'The Dirty Dozen.'
Frank Grillo / Actor
Dozen
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Being an actor can be a lonely life.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Lonely
Lonely Life
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I'm not really enamored by movie stars.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Enamored
Movie Star
Stars
Movie Stars
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I don't look like Hollywood Guy. I'm a regular guy.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Regular Guy
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Anthony Bourdain is a legend and an inspiration for me.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Inspiration
Legend
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'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is one of my top three movies.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Outlaw
Wales
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My parents got married when they were 16, and they never had any money.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Married
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Coming from immigrant Italian people, the one thing you do is work hard.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Italian
Work People Hard
Immigrant
The One Thing
Work Hard
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I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Levels
Thinking
Want
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A tough guy, to me, stands for something, and he's not afraid to get a beating.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Tough
Tough Guy
Afraid
Beating
Stands
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Israel changed my life. It is one of the most amazing countries that I have ever been to.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Amazing
Changed
Israel
Most Amazing
Life Amazing My Life
Countries
My Life
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I think anybody who has a soul would themselves and their needs aside to help other people.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Helping Others
People
Thinking
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By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Aggressive
Fighter
Way
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You get spoiled on Captain America, where your trailers two blocks long and its got three bedrooms.
Frank Grillo / Actor
America
Block
Two
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When I graduated college, I decided that I was going to try to be an actor, but it was my dirty secret.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Decided
Secret
Graduated
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You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Spoiled
Where Your Long
Bedrooms
Blocks
Captain
Captain America
Trailer
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There's nobody in the arts in my family. It was kind of embarrassing to even say that I wanted to be an actor.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Embarrassing
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I can see parts of my father in 'Kingdom' when I rage like that. I can see my father's frustrations in his life.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Rage
Frustrations
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I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Football
High School
Wrestler
Adult
Adult Life
Played
Life School High School
Boxed
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Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Faces
Fighting
Sound
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Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Exists
Purge
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I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Believer
Metaphor
Life Face Me
Cliched
Punched
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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.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Range
Charles
Great Actor
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I find in L.A. that you ask people how they're doing, and the immediate answer is, 'Oh, I'm very busy,' as if busy is the goal.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Immediate
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You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Jump
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My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it's not really looking at the big picture.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Jobs
Actors
Character
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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.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Wise
Technology
Thinking
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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?
Frank Grillo / Actor
Journey
Tough Guy
Archetypal
Emotionally
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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.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Discipline
Responsibility
Solo
Weight
Sport
Team Sport
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I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Class
College
People
Money People Always
Struggled
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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.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Scripts
Good-Looking
Rascal
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I look at the script first and who's directing it and then talk to the director to find out what his vision of the movie is and if it matches my vision and then we go after it.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Directors
Looks
Vision
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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.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Boxing
Me People Know
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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.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Everyone Else
Wolves
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I have always been restless. I have always been a seeker. It is one of the reasons that I train as hard as I do and I have studied as many disciplines as I have. I need to be challenged.
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Restless
Challenged
Disciplines
Seeker
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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.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Daddy
Saddest
Worst Thing
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It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Jobs
Basketball
Couple
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I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Degrees
Emotional
Facts
Grey
Intense
Reality
Wilderness
Reality Always Your
Filming
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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.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Journey
Bad Guys
Discovering
Existential
Outlaw
Revenge
Wales
Clint
Clint Eastwood
Eastwood
Eventually
Favorite Movie
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A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Deliverance
Hero
Love Is
Pacifist
Upside Down
Archetypal
Love Love Is Day
Upside
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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.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Discipline
Opera
Soap
Soap Opera
Training Ground
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I'm giddy. I am like an 8-year-old child, every day. I feel blessed for the opportunities. I feel blessed that people are responding to the work, and I'm landing myself in things that people far more talented than I am are allowing me to work on.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Opportunity
Blessed
Children
Years
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My friend Liam Neeson has managed to carve out a great place in the industry for himself and is still doing action movies at 64 years old. He's my hero. I use him as a template. My middle kid, Liam, is named after him. He's one of the coolest guys in Hollywood.
Frank Grillo / Actor
Action Movies
Named
Carve
Coolest
Great Place
My Friend
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When directors like Joe Russo, who understand story from a very global perspective, start working more and more with Chinese filmmakers, you'll start seeing Chinese films that connect with audiences all over Asia, Europe, and South America - maybe even North America.
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Asia
North America
South America
Audiences
Joe
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I think it just seems like something that somebody else does, like they raise actors somewhere in Ohio, and once in a while, people go and pick their actors and move to Hollywood. It seemed like such a distant idea. But then, as I started growing up, I'm like, 'Oh, this is an occupation.'
Frank Grillo / Actor
Occupation
Ohio
Distant
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