Gina Carano Quotes

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Gina Carano

Profession : Actress

Birth : April 16, 1982

Fighting is my career, it's what I love to do, but I am taking offers and trying to expand because the more I expand myself, the more valuable I become to promoters.

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I don't get paid what people think I get paid for fighting.

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The ultimate first date? Something that is completely out of the ordinary - go crazy, because first dates are always a little awkward, so do something a little extreme.

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I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.

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I didn't really watch action films growing up! I grew up on stuff like 'Anne of Green Gables' - that was more when I was in elementary school. It was all I ever watched.

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Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed.

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I don't mind answering any questions, because I'm not just a fighter. I'm a lot more than that.

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I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised.

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I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are.

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My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh; it's what you look like.'

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I was always bigger than the other girls. My sisters are very, very beautiful and very skinny, and I've always had a more muscular body. So I grew up with a different mentality.

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I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations.

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Fighting is very physical and extreme and you're very vulnerable. It's a very mental type of thing.

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I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.

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Of course, fighting is not going to be as graceful as movie fighting. I don't like it to be ugly and I don't like it to be one big brawl or people clobbering each other.

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A lot of people enjoyed the film 'Haywire' and a lot of people have mixed feelings on it but regardless, a lot of people have said really wonderful things about it being my first experience, that the fighting they absolutely enjoyed. So I think I've gotten a lot more fans, actually.

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I'm really surprised how many people knew me as Gina Carano. MMA has a beautiful fan base.

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Everybody is their own critic.

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When I enjoy doing something, I don't mind if it hurts.

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