Lou Ferrigno Quotes

I did a movie ‘I Love You, Man’ and it got great reviews; it was very enjoyable.

Close to birth… I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

There is no excuse for anyone not to train three times a week. People want to look fat. Anyone can change their mind if they want to. It’s all about motivation.

To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.

I don’t think anybody else can play the Hulk like I could. I was able to show emotions even with all of the makeup. I don’t think it can be duplicated.

‘The Hulk’ was the beginning of me, a platform as an actor to grow.

When I work out, I wear two in-the-ear hearing aids for comfort, and then I wear the behind-the-ears for my day-to-day non-physical activities, when I need maximum hearing and to communicate with people and do interviews!

Bodybuilding saved my life because I overcame the nerd stage. I got picked on. I was fascinated with power, and then I decided to take that direction because I knew that would make me feel good about myself.

I have a lot of anger about my childhood – being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.

I train a lot of people on the side as a personal trainer, but I still work out myself to keep in great shape.

Pumping iron is not what it used to be. It doesn’t have the personality it used to. When we started out, people who worked out had nothing. Now there is so much money involved; back then it was the love of the sport. We appreciated what we have. Today it’s not the same.

It’s funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but its a lot of work to look like this and to be in this kind of condition.

I loved doing the ‘King of Queens‘, I have never had so much fun doing a show. People got to see a different side of me.

I love doing comedy. I did comedy for seven years on ‘The King of Queens.’

The Hulk was a unique character because of his strength and power. He doesn’t have a costume like Spiderman or like Superman – The Hulk is more visual. His passion and his strength, that is what separates him from anything else.

The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.

The truth is, I’ve been the Hulk my whole life.

I have the largest collection of Hulk memorabilia in the world – everything from toilet paper, wallpaper, bicycles – all boxed up at my house in Northern California. I’ve had it for so long, I think it might be time to sell it.

Anytime I do a movie or a TV show, I make them aware of my hearing loss at the beginning, and that makes it much easier for all of us to communicate and get the job done.