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I remember the first time I saw Robert De Niro at a party. I didn't want to run over and shake his hand. I wanted to admire him from a distance. Later, I ended up making a movie with him, and that was fantastic.

With 'The Expendables,' you have such a brilliant mess of the greatest action stars of all time, so you're in for the ride with those people.

You got to be careful mentioning people as great as Clint Eastwood. You can't put me in the same sentence as that man.

Suits change a lot - the wide lapel thing, the fashion trends, the trousers change.

The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.

A movie, it's like a very complicated timepiece. There's a lot of wheels in a watch. And some of those wheels, if they don't turn right, then, you know, the watch ain't gonna tell the time.

I had such a good time working with Paul Feig on 'Spy.'

I loved 'The Sweeney.'

In L.A., it's very hard to have some kind of conscience of some style out there. The weather's too hot; there's no seasons.

One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is.

In Hollywood, people get reputations, just rumors that are passed down.

I know, a lot of the films I've done, it's obvious I'm going to beat up six guys and just walk out the door. There's not a lot of motivating factors - it's just action for the sake of action.

A lot of the TV shows, they do long hours, and they do a lot of days, and you don't get a lot of time. But the good thing is, if you get one that's made in L.A., or made in a place you want to be, you get to go home every night.

I'm more into MMA than any other sport. I watch a lot of the UFC fights. I have since it first came onto the scene.

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

The oil sequence was about two or three days. It was very cold and was snowing.

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained.

How long you can continue to be good at something is how much you believe in yourself and how much hard work you do with the training.

The movie style of fighting is completely exaggerated with over-the-top movements. You'd get completely hammered if you fought like that in a real fight situation.

Comedy is not my first go-to sort of genre.