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I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.
Gina Carano
2.
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.
Gina Carano
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I'm really surprised how many people knew me as Gina Carano. MMA has a beautiful fan base.
Gina Carano
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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.
Gina Carano
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There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.
Gina Carano
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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.
Gina Carano
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Fighting's given me confidence but it's also broken me down and kept me humble.
Gina Carano
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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.
Gina Carano
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I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised.
Gina Carano
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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.
Gina Carano
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I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.
Gina Carano
12.
Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.
Gina Carano
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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!"
Gina Carano
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Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.
Gina Carano
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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.
Gina Carano
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Fight night is all about believing in yourself, believing in what you can do, and doing it.
Gina Carano
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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.
Gina Carano
18.
I have gotten some of the most beautiful experiences that a person can possibly ask for so I'm not at all complaining.
Gina Carano
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I love it. It's something I can do that makes everything else disappear.
Gina Carano
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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.
Gina Carano
21.
My mom used to tell me: It's not what you weigh; it's what you look like.
Gina Carano
22.
The guys I date always want to test my strength and wrestle around. By the end, they're drenched in sweat.
Gina Carano
23.
My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo Mario Bros.
Gina Carano
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I want people to see me for who I am and not for how someone else is trying to promote me.
Gina Carano
25.
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.
Gina Carano
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I'm afraid of pretty much everything, but there's something inside me that is addicted to scaring myself.
Gina Carano
27.
I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are.
Gina Carano
28.
People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.
Gina Carano
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You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.
Gina Carano
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I like fighting because it's honest.
Gina Carano
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I don't get paid what people think I get paid for fighting.
Gina Carano
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You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before.
Gina Carano
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I was destined to express myself.
Gina Carano
34.
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.
Gina Carano
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I am always training because I love it.
Gina Carano
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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.
Gina Carano
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When I enjoy doing something, I don't mind if it hurts.
Gina Carano
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I'm attracted to any type of endeavor that gives me the chance to express what's going on inside me.
Gina Carano
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Everybody is their own critic.
Gina Carano
40.
When you dream big, you eventually attract big things.
Gina Carano
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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.
Gina Carano
42.
Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana.
Gina Carano
43.
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.
Gina Carano
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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.
Gina Carano
45.
It's something that I've always loved to do and it's been such a genuine expression for me.
Gina Carano
46.
I definitely don't want to be one of those athletes who turns into a cheesy actress.
Gina Carano
47.
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.
Gina Carano
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Fighting is very physical and extreme and you're very vulnerable. It's a very mental type of thing.
Gina Carano
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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.
Gina Carano
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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.
Gina Carano
