Frank Grillo

“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.”

“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.”

“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'm not talented.”

“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.”

“There was nobody telling me, 'You should be an artist,' or, 'You should be an actor.'”

“I love 'The Dirty Dozen.'”

“There's nobody in the arts in my family. It was kind of embarrassing to even say that I wanted to be an actor.”

“בחור קשוח, מבחינתי, מייצג משהו, והוא לא מפחד לקבל מכות.”

“אני מאמין בקבלת אגרוף בפרצוף. אני יודע שזה נשמע קלישאתי, אבל בשבילי, לחימה היא מטאפורה לחיים.”

“אתה קצת מאבד את תחושת המציאות שלך בעובדה שאתה מצלם סרט.”

“תמיד הייתי חסר מנוחה. תמיד הייתי מחפש (Seeker). זו אחת הסיבות שאני מתאמן כל כך קשה ולמדתי כל כך הרבה תחומים. אני צריך שיאתגרו אותי.”

“מה שאני מחפש בתפקיד זה את הפיזיות. אבל מהו המסע הרגשי? האם אני יכול לקחת את האדם הזה, שהוא הבחור הקשוח הארכיטיפי הזה, ולמצוא את היופי?”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”