Top 35 Olivier Martinez Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Love is based on imagination.”

— Olivier Martinez

2. “I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.”

— Olivier Martinez

3. “Who knows what happens tomorrow? We’ll find it tomorrow.”

— Olivier Martinez

4. “I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that’s not always the case when you’re married.”

— Olivier Martinez

5. “Imagination creates some big monsters.”

— Olivier Martinez

6. “I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it’s tough.”

— Olivier Martinez

7. “Everybody has some talents – we all have an art side and some talent – but you have some areas where you are better than others. My area is acting, I guess. I hope.”

— Olivier Martinez

8. “It’s not only imagination, it’s the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.”

— Olivier Martinez

9. “It’s a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable.”

— Olivier Martinez

10. “And what’s more I’ve got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.”

— Olivier Martinez

11. “It’s nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you’re closer to them by love.”

— Olivier Martinez

12. “My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We’re from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.”

— Olivier Martinez

13. “I don’t want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.”

— Olivier Martinez

14. “The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works – never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.”

— Olivier Martinez

15. “Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let’s calm down. It’s not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer.”

— Olivier Martinez

16. “I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it’s not a big deal.”

— Olivier Martinez

17. “When you’re a foreigner, at the beginning you are far away from the culture. Then, little by little, you start to interact with people, have friends, have a life, and then you feel more comfortable.”

— Olivier Martinez

18. “But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.”

— Olivier Martinez

19. “I’ll always be a foreigner.”

— Olivier Martinez

20. “When I was a kid, I was watching the movies my parents wanted to watch. I came from a working class family, not specifically educated, so we were watching popular movies. My dad liked cowboy movies, so we were watching cowboy movies. Some of them were amazing. It’s a genre of movie I like very much.”

— Olivier Martinez

21. “I like Paris. My problem is I don’t like Parisians.”

— Olivier Martinez

22. “If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?”

— Olivier Martinez

23. “I wanted to become a champ – I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood – and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.”

— Olivier Martinez

24. “I have an accent, I’m limited, I have to play foreign parts – I would love to play American parts but I can’t because I have an accent. You are more limited as a foreigner in every area.”

— Olivier Martinez

25. “I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.”

— Olivier Martinez

26. “Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It’s very strange because it’s exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.”

— Olivier Martinez

27. “I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.”

— Olivier Martinez

28. “I don’t have goals in life.”

— Olivier Martinez

29. “Brave is good – especially when you are a soldier.”

— Olivier Martinez

30. “If you compare me to an actor, I’m probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I’m probably one of the best actors.”

— Olivier Martinez

31. “But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that’s maybe what helped me to get the part.”

— Olivier Martinez

32. “People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.”

— Olivier Martinez

33. “I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.”

— Olivier Martinez

34. “And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.”

— Olivier Martinez

35. “It’s like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn’t be a boxer, so I quit.”

— Olivier Martinez

36. “I never analyze why I was with one woman instead of another.”

— Olivier Martinez

37. “I don’t feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.”

— Olivier Martinez

38. “I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that’s how I was discovered.”

— Olivier Martinez

39. “I’m not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.”

— Olivier Martinez