#heavy weight

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

#biceps #enormous #found #grows #had

After 'Kong,' my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips and ankles to get the sense of size and scale of the movement of the character... You are telling your body that you are these things and that you're feeling these thoughts and that you're experiencing these experiences. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#ankles #around #because #body #character

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way. ↗

— Eric Bana

#ever #heavy #heavy weights #i #lift

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#born #golden #heavy #heavy weights #juggle

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#body #burden #down #dragged #drags

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different. ↗

— Roger Moore

#age #any #different #down #easily

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert? ↗

— Manuel Puig

#ancient #back #carry #could #country

I don't do heavy weights at all. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#heavy weights #i #weights

I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#heavy #heavy weights #i #keep #lift

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#cameras #heavy #heavy metal #heavy weight #lightweight