"If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors"
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The subtext is also a quiet defense of his own persona-driven career. He’s not pitching acting as a rarefied transformation so much as an extension of street competence: read the room, commit to the bit, don’t flinch. That lines up with his screen identity - tough, laconic, kinetically precise - where the performance is less about range and more about presence. Confidence becomes a kind of special effect.
Then he pivots to “colorful characters at home,” which smuggles in a whole cultural argument about authenticity. He’s pointing to the people who don’t audition because they’re too busy being themselves: loud uncles, pub philosophers, hardened mates with oddly poetic takes. It’s affectionate, but it’s also a reminder that charisma isn’t distributed by drama schools. Statham frames acting as a continuum of everyday performance - the same social theater, just with better lighting and a paycheck.
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Statham, Jason. (2026, January 16). If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-got-a-good-imagination-a-lot-of-confidence-106499/
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Statham, Jason. "If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-got-a-good-imagination-a-lot-of-confidence-106499/.
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"If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-got-a-good-imagination-a-lot-of-confidence-106499/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.




