Grillo Quotes & Sayings

By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way. — Frank Grillo

The growing policy-reform movement is a broad church. It includes everyone from ganja-smoking Rastafarians to free-market fundamentalists and all in between. There are socialists who think the drug war hurts the poor, capitalists who see a business opportunity, liberals who defend the right to choose, and fiscal conservatives who complain America is spending $40 billion a year on the War on Drugs rather than making a few billion taxing it. The movement can't agree on much other than that the present policy doesn't work. People disagree on whether legalized drugs should be controlled by the state, by corporations, by small businessmen, or by grow-your-own farmers, and on whether they should be advertised, taxed, or just handed out free in white boxes to addicts. — Ioan Grillo

We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by a clown by profession, Beppe Grillo, in Italy. — Lionel Barber

Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it. — Frank Grillo

Beautiful," Grillo said.
"Would Swift approve?"
"Fuck Swift."
"Somebody should have. — Clive Barker

Something is better than nothing — Ettore Grillo

What people don't know is that I'm a blackbelt in jujitsu, which I've been for 20 years, and I've been boxing since I've been 15 years old - those are things that come natural to me. — Frank Grillo

I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life. — Frank Grillo

A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that. — Frank Grillo

You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms. — Frank Grillo

I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie. — Frank Grillo

I'm not really enamored by movie stars. — Frank Grillo

The Middleman: "So what's it going to be? Keep the secret or death?"
Wendy Watson: "What do you think?"
The Middleman: "Ma'am specificity is the soul of all good communication. — Javier Grillo-Marxuach

The soap opera was so long ago - the thing about soap operas, and there's something to be said for doing it, but you do a script a day. I don't want to say it's a training ground; it really isn't, but what it does teach you is discipline. — Frank Grillo

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger. — Frank Grillo

You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience. — Frank Grillo

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings. — Frank Grillo

When you have Liam Neeson in a film, no matter how good everyone else is, it's a Liam Neeson film. And if there's wolves, and you're running, it's about Liam Neeson running from wolves. — Frank Grillo

My favorite movie is 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' with Clint Eastwood, a guy who gets his family killed by the bad guys then goes on a journey of revenge, eventually discovering himself - very existential. — Frank Grillo

I look at the script first and who's directing it and then talk to the director to find out what his vision of the movie is and if it matches my vision and then we go after it. — Frank Grillo

My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it's not really looking at the big picture. — Frank Grillo

It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs. — Frank Grillo

I think anybody who has a soul would themselves and their needs aside to help other people. — Frank Grillo

I'm giddy. I am like an 8-year-old child, every day. I feel blessed for the opportunities. I feel blessed that people are responding to the work, and I'm landing myself in things that people far more talented than I am are allowing me to work on. — Frank Grillo

Stories had a way of doing that, in Grillo's experience. It was his belief that nothing, but nothing, could stay secret, however powerful the forces with interests vested in silence. Conspirators might conspire and thugs attempt to gag but the truth, or an approximation of same, would show itself sooner or later, very often in the unlikeliest form. It was seldom hard facts that revealed the life behind the life. It was rumour, graffiti, strip cartoons and love songs. — Clive Barker

I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life. — Frank Grillo

What I look for in a role is the physical. But what's the journey emotionally? Can I take this person who is this archetypal tough guy and find the beauty? — Frank Grillo

I think if we live with more compassion globally, I think we would be in a better place. We've had more then we have had as human beings technology wise. — Frank Grillo