Luc Quotes

"I feel fine and comfortable with myself, but not because I`m beautiful. I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel. I`m a lucky person because I`ve been loved a lot. I have a great family."

(on getting the part of Spike) "I walked in there thinking I was the s***, swaggering around, among other Spikes...and I got up in the middle of the room with all these Spikes, and started doing Shakespeare. They all pulled back, and I told them, `Can`t do that? Good luck in there.` It was MY role. I took it by the throat."

(Discussing whether or not he is typecast by audiences as Jean-Luc Picard): I think perhaps when I first walk in front of the camera they`ll say, "Aha, there, ah, yeah, Jean-Luc, we recognize him despite that charming little mustache." I believe that audiences are really smart enough to let go of that pretty quickly, but that`s also my job as an actor to persuade them that, you know, Jean-Luc Picard is left behind and this is someone entirely different... I mean, I`m an actor dedicated to transforming myself and to creating original pieces of work, and I will not accept that my life is going to be forever connected to Jean-Luc Picard in the roles that I play. On the other hand, I`m absolutely delighted that he`s still in my life. Actually, I think my appearance in The Simpsons and an appearance that I did on Sesame Street - in praise of the letter B - were perhaps the two most distinguished bits of work that I`ve done in the United States. (Discussing his love for Beavis & Butthead): Oh, yes, my passion for them remains the same... I think it`s one of the most original and brilliant pieces of television that we`ve seen in recent years. The dialogue is delightful. I simply sit and giggle and laugh all the time.

(on Jean-Luc Godard) I`ve never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. He`s made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis (1966), was shot here in Sweden. It was mind-numbingly boring.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good Kung Fu film.

Luc Besson, the writer and producer, saw my picture at an agency and wanted to meet me.

Oh, my God - I am really shaping the destiny of these characters. There`s Patrick as Jean-Luc Picard, and he`s now going to do a scene that I wrote. So that for me was the biggest sort of fan/professional synthesis.

(Sporting a stubbly beard and buzz cut, Statham says that he shares some qualities with his character.) I like his suits, ... I like the style of him, but he`s a character created by Luc Besson. He`s a very internal guy. I`m not. I`m a little bit more expressive and I like a bit of fun.