Arts Quotes

I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to a liberal arts degree and got my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and it made sense.

I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It's a big part of mixed martial arts.

There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic.

I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

I had so many older brothers who beat up on me, so I'm a tough kid. I love mixed martial arts, weapons training, guns, knives, driving fast cars and motorcycles.

I do feel Im being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with Mortal Kombat.

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.

I'm a street fighter. I'm ready for any kind of mixed martial arts that comes at me.

I was a professional fighter for a while, and I trained in martial arts for seven years, so I think that kind of helped form a base for me as far as dancing.

Those who rush are the same ones who lack technique.

Not even the gods fight against necessity.

But even in my darkest days I had faith it would turn around.

I'm as good as Jean-Claude Van Damme when it comes to martial arts. Sounding a little cocky aren't I

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.

I'm a traditional martial artist and I'm always going to carry myself in the most respectful way I can.

I believe martial arts is always evolving and mixed martials arts is the top of the food chain.

I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio.

My time of martial arts was traditional.

Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.

'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

Once I win, everyone will know who my instructor is in mixed martial arts.

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.

Boxing is so loose and flowy, and martial arts is more stiff, and about strength and structure.

I don't like to trash talk... I don't know how to do that, it's not me. In the martial arts world that I was brought up it was all about respect.

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

I am so glad people have started making films n martial arts and self-defense, which is actually the need of the hour.

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.

Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.

I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I do all kinds of different martial arts.

I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.

I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.

A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn't worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts.

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.

I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan.

I enjoy doing martial arts films, but I like the straight stuff, too. I'd like to go back and do some Shakespeare, and maybe knock out a play or two. It's all about keeping balance.