Quotes by Holt McCallany

Holt McCallany

As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you’re holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it’s one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you’re lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category.

Hands

Memorable

Opportunity

Boxing is a place where, if you haven’t done the training, that’s going to be exposed very quickly.

Boxing

Done

Training

I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like ‘Raging Bull’, ‘Rocky’, ‘The Set Up’, ‘Fat City and Hard Times’. I just loved those films.

Boys

Hard Times

Play

I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

Boxers

Boxing

Play

I had been in the gym training for many, many years, but I definitely stepped it up when it was time to get into shape to play ‘Lights’. I began trying to live the life of a boxer, and that means everything that you would expect.

Light

Live Life

Mean

I love boxing, and boxing has always been my favorite sport. I was always into it, and I boxed recreationally all of my life.

Boxing

My Favorite

Sports

I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I’m very, very happy with my career as an actor. I made the right choice.

Boxing

Careers

Choices

I love the whole world of boxing and the sense of community that exists there.

Boxing

Community

World

I take my hat off to my friend, Mark Wahlberg, because I know that it took him a long time to make ‘The Fighter,’ and he overcame a lot of obstacles to do it, and now the film is an unqualified success.

Hats

Long

Unqualified

I watched tapes and became a historian of the sport, and tried to combine certain elements and find things in the gym and saw what worked for me.

Elements

Sports

Tape

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Desire

Done

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Fun

Guy

Hands

Hard Times

Hats

Ideas

Light

Live Life

Live Your Life

Long

Mean

Memorable

Men

Morning

Motivation

My Favorite

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Optimist

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Play

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Quotes by Holt McCallany

Holt McCallany

Boxing is a place where, if you haven’t done the training, that’s going to be exposed very quickly.

I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like ‘Raging Bull’, ‘Rocky’, ‘The Set Up’, ‘Fat City and Hard Times’. I just loved those films.

I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

I had been in the gym training for many, many years, but I definitely stepped it up when it was time to get into shape to play ‘Lights’. I began trying to live the life of a boxer, and that means everything that you would expect.

I love boxing, and boxing has always been my favorite sport. I was always into it, and I boxed recreationally all of my life.

I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I’m very, very happy with my career as an actor. I made the right choice.

I love the whole world of boxing and the sense of community that exists there.

I take my hat off to my friend, Mark Wahlberg, because I know that it took him a long time to make ‘The Fighter,’ and he overcame a lot of obstacles to do it, and now the film is an unqualified success.

I watched tapes and became a historian of the sport, and tried to combine certain elements and find things in the gym and saw what worked for me.

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