Explore popular quotes and sayings by a New Zealander actor Manu Bennett.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Jonathan Manu Bennett is a New Zealand actor. He is primarily known for portraying characters in epic fantasy works, such as Crixus in the TV series Spartacus, Allanon in The Shannara Chronicles, Slade Wilson / Deathstroke in Arrow, and Azog the Defiler in the Hobbit trilogy.
I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.
The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.
I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
Food is the essential thing to gaining weight. Protein, you know, that's basically it - protein.
The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.
I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.
Ive always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.
If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.