Top 49 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Grillo

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Frank Anthony Grillo is an American actor. He is best known for playing Brock Rumlow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and animated series What If...? (2021). He had his first leading role in the action-horror film The Purge: Anarchy (2014), portraying Sergeant Leo Barnes, a role he reprised in The Purge: Election Year (2016), and has also appeared in Warrior (2011), The Grey (2012), End of Watch (2012), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Wolf Warrior 2 and Wheelman, and Boss Level (2021). Grillo's television work includes the lead role in Kingdom (2014–2017) and recurring roles in Battery Park (2000), For the People (2002–2003), The Shield (2002–2003), Prison Break (2005–2006), Blind Justice (2005), The Kill Point (2007) and Billions (2020).

American - Actor | Born: June 8, 1965

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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

When directors like Joe Russo, who understand story from a very global perspective, start working more and more with Chinese filmmakers, you'll start seeing Chinese films that connect with audiences all over Asia, Europe, and South America - maybe even North America.

Frank Grillo

There's nobody in the arts in my family. It was kind of embarrassing to even say that I wanted to be an actor.

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 love 'The Dirty Dozen.'

Frank Grillo

I'm not really enamored by movie stars.

Frank Grillo

Coming from immigrant Italian people, the one thing you do is work hard.

Frank Grillo

When I graduated college, I decided that I was going to try to be an actor, but it was my dirty secret.

Frank Grillo

I love Charles Bronson. He didn't have a lot of range, and he wasn't a great actor, but you couldn't take your eyes off him.

Frank Grillo

My friend Liam Neeson has managed to carve out a great place in the industry for himself and is still doing action movies at 64 years old. He's my hero. I use him as a template. My middle kid, Liam, is named after him. He's one of the coolest guys in Hollywood.

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 talented.

Frank 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

'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is one of my top three movies.

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

I have always been restless. I have always been a seeker. It is one of the reasons that I train as hard as I do and I have studied as many disciplines as I have. I need to be challenged.

Frank Grillo

Being an actor can be a lonely 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

Israel changed my life. It is one of the most amazing countries that I have ever been to.

Frank Grillo

The things that make me saddest - when I got into my head - if anything were to happen to me, and my wife were to have to go to my kids and say 'Daddy's gone.' Worst thing I could imagine.

Frank Grillo

I'm a physical person - I like to get hit.

Frank Grillo

I have a good work ethic.

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 find in L.A. that you ask people how they're doing, and the immediate answer is, 'Oh, I'm very busy,' as if busy is the goal.

Frank Grillo

I can see parts of my father in 'Kingdom' when I rage like that. I can see my father's frustrations in his life.

Frank Grillo

I don't look like Hollywood Guy. I'm a regular guy.

Frank Grillo

I think it just seems like something that somebody else does, like they raise actors somewhere in Ohio, and once in a while, people go and pick their actors and move to Hollywood. It seemed like such a distant idea. But then, as I started growing up, I'm like, 'Oh, this is an occupation.'

Frank Grillo

There was nobody telling me, 'You should be an artist,' or, 'You should be an actor.'

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

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

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

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

Frank Grillo

My parents got married when they were 16, and they never had any money.

Frank Grillo

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

Frank Grillo

A tough guy, to me, stands for something, and he's not afraid to get a beating.

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

I wrestled when I was a kid. That started me off with the discipline, because making weight was my responsibility. It is a team sport, but it is also a solo sport.

Frank Grillo

Anthony Bourdain is a legend and an inspiration for me.

Frank Grillo

A lot of times, especially with TV, I would get these scripts, and I'm like, 'Oh, they want me to be the good-looking guy who's a little bit of a rascal.' It's just boring.

Frank Grillo

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

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 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

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

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

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

You get spoiled on Captain America, where your trailers two blocks long and its got three bedrooms.

Frank Grillo

Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

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

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

Frank Grillo

Top 49 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Grillo

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