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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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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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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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It’s a matter of time you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable.
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If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?
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I'll always be a foreigner.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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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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Brave is good - especially when you are a soldier.
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And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.
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My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
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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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Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.
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