Top 20 Holt McCallany Quotes

#1. You've got to wake up every morning and believe, 'I was born to do this.'

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#2. I would say that one of the really special gifts about playing an athlete is that it's the best motivation you'll ever have to get in top shape and stay in top shape because you know that you're going to be expected to deliver.

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#3. You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.

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#4. I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.

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#5. You think like a boxer and behave like a boxer, and you try to live your life that way, being in the gym all the time and being careful to push the plate away at the dinner table. You don't need dessert. When you're out having fun, you ask for agua instead of vodka. It's very important.

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#6. If you're going to play a champion athlete, people expect you to look a certain way, and you also have to have the stamina to be able to continue to perform.

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#7. I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happy with my career as an actor. I made the right choice and things are really working out for me right now, but I won't pretend that there isn't a part of me that always secretly wanted to be a boxer.

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#8. When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.

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#9. I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like 'Raging Bull', 'Rocky', 'The Set Up', 'Fat City and Hard Times'. I just loved those films.

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#10. I've done a lot of fight scenes, and I always find that it's better that they be meticulously choreographed. You want them to look as real as possible, but you don't want anyone to get hurt. So I believe in really working it out in rehearsal, and when you get to the set, just go for it 100 percent.

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#11. You have to really think about what kind of guy the character is and decide on a style that works, that complements my physicality and that's going to be believable, but also be compelling for the audience and for the camera.

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#12. I watched tapes and became a historian of the sport, and tried to combine certain elements and find things in the gym and saw what worked for me.

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#13. I love the whole world of boxing and the sense of community that exists there.

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#14. I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

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#15. I had been in the gym training for many, many years, but I definitely stepped it up when it was time to get into shape to play 'Lights'. I began trying to live the life of a boxer, and that means everything that you would expect.

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#16. You can get into a place in your life where you no longer are in control of events, and events are in control of you.

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#17. The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.

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#18. Boxing is a place where, if you haven't done the training, that's going to be exposed very quickly.

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#19. I take my hat off to my friend, Mark Wahlberg, because I know that it took him a long time to make 'The Fighter', and he overcame a lot of obstacles to do it, and now the film is an unqualified success.

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#20. I love boxing, and boxing has always been my favorite sport. I was always into it, and I boxed recreationally all of my life.

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