Manu Bennett's Quotes

Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.

Food is the essential thing to gaining weight. Protein, you know, that's basically it - protein.

I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'

The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.

The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.

I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.

I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done.

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.

Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible.

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.