Manu Bennett Quotes

Manu Bennett — New Zealander Actor born on October 10, 1969,

Manu Bennett, also known as Jon Bennett, is an Australian-New Zealand actor. He is known for his portrayal as the Gallic gladiator Crixus in the Starz television series Spartacus. He has also appeared as Azog the Defiler in Peter Jackson's three-part film adaptation based on The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, as supervillain Slade Wilson/Deathstroke in The CW TV series Arrow and as Allanon in the upcoming MTV series The Shannara Chronicles, based on the Shannara novel series by Terry Brooks... (wikipedia)

Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.

To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.

The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'