Top 105 Jason Statham Quotes

The best things in life sometimes happen spontaneously.

I’m a big Bruce Lee fan, and if I saw Bruce Lee try to be some namby-pamby lawyer, I’d want my money back.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

Depending on the season, you’ll find me outdoors doing an activity.

Whatever you do, do it to the extreme.

I’ve come from nowhere, and I’m not shy to go back.

Science fiction I’ve always been a fan of.

Take a martial art or a sport, something that gives you a skill, engages the body, and allows you the possibility of being great – or at least being active. You’ll find your confidence. Without it, you’re nothing. It’s the remedy for everything.

Revenge is a caustic thing. I say, Breathe in, breathe deeply, let it go.

I love the hip-hop scene.

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 go to this gym full of stunt men. There aren’t any TVs or treadmills there. This is a spit-and-sawdust kind of place. It has a lot of great training aids – trampolines and bags and every weapon ever invented to do harm to a human being. If you want to know how to throw a knife, it’s great.

I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready.

There’s so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.

I tend to leave people alone that I admire.

The thing about the UK is we don’t really make that many great movies.

I’ve always got a home in England. My family and friends are there. It’s a place I hold very close to me.

When I was growing up, my dad didn’t have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket, it was a hand-me-down weight bench.

I thought ‘The Bank Job’ was a really quality movie.

My role model is Sly Stallone.

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

I’m certainly not Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.

Each director maintains a different personality. Either you get along, or you don’t.

Usually, if you’ve got a great script, everything falls into place.

I’m sure everyone that has ever done an action movie has just drooled over how full of talent Bruce Lee was and how unique he was.

Usually, if you’ve got a great script, everything falls into place.

I loved ‘The Sweeney.’

When I go to the cinema I watch all different kinds of films.

I’m not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.

I like fashion. My mum was a dressmaker, believe it or not, so the consequence of that was that all my clothes were homemade, and I looked like a terrible mess until I was old enough to buy my own. But I love good tailoring.

I love to get behind the wheel and get competitive.

Every movie you do, you find something in yourself that you probably didn’t know that you had, and a director will find something in you that you can nurture and find and bring for the next one.

I’m into all things German. Everything that I own is German. As far as cars go, anyway.

I just gravitate to those more testosterone-filled sort of parts than me playing something a bit more fairy-like.

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.

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

I don’t go in for the high-end gyms with the high-tech equipment and all the fancy stuff.

A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.

I don’t have to pitch movies. I’m no good at it!

It’s something I never dreamed I’d be doing, making movies.

‘The Bank Job,’ for me, was a great opportunity for me to do some good acting, you know?

There’s so much more danger in someone where you really don’t know what they’re going to do, and you don’t know what they’re really capable of, rather than someone who’s trying to be physically tough.

All of the stunt men – these are the unsung heroes. They really are. Nobody is giving them any credibility. They’re risking their necks.

It’s good to step out of the box, but don’t step out so far that you can’t get back in.

A lot of good actors are turning to TV.

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 could take my grandma and put her in a cape, and they’ll put her on a green screen, and they’ll have stunt doubles come in and do all the action. Anybody can do it. They’re relying on stunt doubles and green screen and $200 million budgets – it’s all CGI created. To me, it’s not authentic.

I’m not a method actor; I hope you know that!

We’re trying to make a movie that’s interesting.

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

I do like a lot of the ’70s movies. I love Charles Bronson in ‘Hard Times.’ All my favorite movies where ones from yesteryear. The ’70s was a good era. I love all those.

People love stories about the mafia: ‘The Godfather,’ ‘American Gangster.’

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.

Yeah, I’d make a decent Bond. But it’d be very, very different if I did it.

There’s a huge amount of faith and confidence in the stunt team.

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

Scorsese will only work with brilliant material. And everyone wants to work with him.

If we want to talk about the movies that have made an impact in what I do in the action realm – Bruce Lee in ‘Enter the Dragon.’ I’ve watched that countless times.

The Rock is the Rock, you know? He’s the ultimate athlete, the professional man with precision. And you want precision from a 270-pound living, walking brick wall.

Bruce Lee was just so lightning-fast. People try to emulate him in whatever way they can, but to try and do what he was doing… you’re just inspired by it; you’re not trying to say, ‘Look, I can do that.’ No one can do what he did.

It’s great to play the hero. You get all the good stuff. You’re in it all the way through.

At least in making an action film, there’s always going to be someone who wants to see a car chase. Even if a lot of the people don’t like it, there will be a lot of people that do. But bad comedy is just garbage.

Every actor has a strength, and sometimes you just respond to things that you see yourself better at. I’m aware of what I can and can’t do.

People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.

Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn’t be able to find the money to go after little projects that I want to do.

We were diving in caves. It wasn’t totally safe.

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

There’s something quite fascinating with crooks and criminals and all things against the law.

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don’t think there’s any great trick to acting.

There’s a voice in all of us, and you can only get expressive through words. There’s a limit to what you can do without speaking.

Some comedies, they want you falling on your face and doing silly things.

Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.

I’m very fussy. I’m very hard to please.

If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.

The TV world is not what it used to be. I mean, the quality has become something quite exceptional.

My mom and dad used to tell me, ‘You’ve got to see this film,’ and they were influential to a high degree of the films I saw as a kid.

I think of Paul Feig as the Scorsese of comedy. He’s the best at what he does. I think people just trust everything that he’s got to say.

Well, I’m used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.

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.

People like ‘Crank,’ some people like ‘Redemption.’ I’m just happy to do things that satiate a different part of me, that test me a little bit.

You should never assume about someone.

There’s so many ways to play a bad guy, and usually people choose the obvious one.