Gina Carano quotes:

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

I cannot say where I will be in 5 yearsscratch that, tomorrowBut I know that wherever you find me, I will remain true to myself with a genuine smile on my face and happiness in my heart.

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.

I know I don't look like the skinny slender model. I know I look a little different but people like to watch me for some reason. It feels good and I'm humbled by it.

My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo 'Mario Bros.

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.

My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo 'Mario Bros.'

There's so much I want to do. I love emotions, I love drama, I love comedy and I also want to take action up to another level, I love comics.

There are certain things that I always dreamed of, like fighting in the UFC. There's just certain things that I feel like haven't been accomplished there. There's such great women coming up in the sport; seems like a wonderful time to be in women's MMA.

You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before.

On 'American Gladiators,' I got to pummel a lot of people off a pyramid with a giant Q-tip. It was so much fun to wrestle people with no risk of getting knocked out or choked out.

It's a constant battle for everybody, but you need to be happy with yourself.

I want people to see me for who I am and not for how someone else is trying to promote me.

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

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.

I feel like I can always do better with action and I always want to push the envelope there as long as I can because I'm a physical person and I love expressing myself physically, but I'm also, on the very flipside, an extremely emotional person. I like watching the relationships and the chemistry and the relatability.

Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana. '

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

I have gotten some of the most beautiful experiences that a person can possibly ask for so I'm not at all complaining.

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.

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

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.

My first fight. I fought a girl that was a little bit heavier, a little bit more experienced and I was petrified because I didn't know what I was getting myself into. And I did really well against her and nobody believed it was my first fight.

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.

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

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.

When I throw a punch, I mean it.

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.

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

Everybody is their own critic.

Fight night is all about believing in yourself, believing in what you can do, and doing it.

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

Fighting's given me confidence but it's also broken me down and kept me humble.

I am always training because I love it.

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

I definitely don't want to be one of those athletes who turns into a cheesy actress.

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

I like fighting because it's honest.

I like to break down barriers and I think that Hollywood is doing the same thing over and over. I want to do something new and say, "Let's evolve as artists!"

I love it. It's something I can do that makes everything else disappear.

I was destined to express myself.

If a good visionary wants to jump on board with that and I see their vision correctly and I like it and I like the script, I would absolutely do it but I have to read the script first.

I'm afraid of pretty much everything, but there's something inside me that is addicted to scaring myself.

I'm attracted to any type of endeavor that gives me the chance to express what's going on inside me.

In acting, you get to explore such an artistic side with different characters to research and learn and explore different things inside yourself and I do that anyway, so I might as well be doing something that I already do, as in a second nature to me, on film.

It [preparing for a role] is just like studying for a test and making the test easy; it makes it a lot of fun, especially when people enjoy it.

It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.

It's something that I've always loved to do and it's been such a genuine expression for me.

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.

My first love is MMA... it's something that I did because it made me feel good.

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

Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.

People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.

The guys I date always want to test my strength and wrestle around. By the end, they're drenched in sweat.

There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.

Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana.

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

When you dream big, you eventually attract big things.

When you fight someone, you share the experience with that one person, and you're never going to have that experience with someone else-even in another fight.

You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.

When you do things for the right reasons, eventually no matter how long it takes, people will take notice of it and can't help but respect it.

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