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" 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. "
Start
Day
End
" 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. "
Lose
Kind
You
" 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. "
People
Money
College
" I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life. "
Punched
Fighting
Know
" I'm not really enamored by movie stars. "
Movie
Really
Stars
" I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life. "
Got
High School
Football
" Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it. "
Places
Listen
You
" 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. "
Family
Bad
Outlaw
" 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. "
Discipline
Long
Training
" 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? "
Find
Journey
Look
" 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. "
Natural
Know
Me
" 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. "
Film
You
Wolves
" You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms. "
You
America
Captain
" 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. "
Experience
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Jump
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