Gina Carano Quotes - Page 2

I know I don't look like the skinny slender model. I know I look a little different but people like to watch me for some reason. It feels good and I'm humbled by it.

I definitely don't want to be one of those athletes who turns into a cheesy actress.

You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.

A lot of people enjoyed the film 'Haywire' and a lot of people have mixed feelings on it but regardless, a lot of people have said really wonderful things about it being my first experience, that the fighting they absolutely enjoyed. So I think I've gotten a lot more fans, actually.

I love it. It's something I can do that makes everything else disappear.

It [preparing for a role] is just like studying for a test and making the test easy; it makes it a lot of fun, especially when people enjoy it.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

There's so much I want to do. I love emotions, I love drama, I love comedy and I also want to take action up to another level, I love comics.

I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations.

I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.

My mom used to tell me: It's not what you weigh; it's what you look like.

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

The guys I date always want to test my strength and wrestle around. By the end, they're drenched in sweat.

My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo Mario Bros.

I am always training because I love it.

Fighting is very physical and extreme and you're very vulnerable. It's a very mental type of thing.

When you fight someone, you share the experience with that one person, and you’re never going to have that experience with someone else-even in another fight.

I was always bigger than the other girls. My sisters are very, very beautiful and very skinny, and I've always had a more muscular body. So I grew up with a different mentality.

My first fight. I fought a girl that was a little bit heavier, a little bit more experienced and I was petrified because I didn't know what I was getting myself into. And I did really well against her and nobody believed it was my first fight.

Of course, fighting is not going to be as graceful as movie fighting. I don't like it to be ugly and I don't like it to be one big brawl or people clobbering each other.

On 'American Gladiators,' I got to pummel a lot of people off a pyramid with a giant Q-tip. It was so much fun to wrestle people with no risk of getting knocked out or choked out.

There are certain things that I always dreamed of, like fighting in the UFC. There's just certain things that I feel like haven't been accomplished there. There's such great women coming up in the sport; seems like a wonderful time to be in women's MMA.

My first love is MMA... it's something that I did because it made me feel good.

The ultimate first date? Something that is completely out of the ordinary - go crazy, because first dates are always a little awkward, so do something a little extreme.

If a good visionary wants to jump on board with that and I see their vision correctly and I like it and I like the script, I would absolutely do it but I have to read the script first.