Frank Grillo Quotations

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.

I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.

You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

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.

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.

I think anybody who has a soul would themselves and their needs aside to help other people.

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.

I'm not really enamored by movie stars.

By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way.

You get spoiled on Captain America, where your trailers two blocks long and its got three bedrooms.

Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.