Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.

- Manu Bennett

I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

- Manu Bennett

Food is the essential thing to gaining weight. Protein, you know, that's basically it - protein.

- Manu Bennett

I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point…

- Manu Bennett

The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.

- Manu Bennett

Ive always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

- Manu Bennett

If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.

- Manu Bennett

To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.

- Manu Bennett

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

- Manu Bennett