Gina Carano

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I like fighting because it's honest.

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.

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.