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It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.
Olivier Martinez
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Olivier Martinez
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 12
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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Everybody has some talents - we all have an art side and some talent - but you have some areas where you are better than others. My area is acting, I guess. I hope.
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I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.
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Brave is good - especially when you are a soldier.
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An actor cannot say no, it’s against his job. If he wants the part he has to say yes. [But] it’s very bad for you to say you can do something and then not do it, so you have to manage to do it.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer.
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The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.
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I'll always be a foreigner.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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