I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically.
I've always wanted to be an action figure.
I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.
If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
Every actor I know pretty much wants to be a rock n' roll star, and we'd all give it up to be in a rock n' roll band, but we're never going to do that. But being in cartoons - that's as close as you get without being an action figure.
I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.
I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.
I would love to do an action film.
People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.
Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.
You get dinged for wanting to do a comedy, then wanting to do a big-budget action film, and then wanting to do an indie. But you can't let other people trying to label you get in the way of trying to do something artistically.
If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.
Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.
But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.
I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's action film.
I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.
The whole idea of making 'James' was to make an action film in the style of the 1970s and '80s.
People don't want to always see a comedy or an action film. If the film in a particular genre is made well, then it will see its share of success.
I see the first 'Bourne' movie as really kind of a fulcrum in changing the modern action film, where things are really gritty and really character-driven. Think about how the entire Bond franchise was completely radicalized by Bourne.
