A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.

Comeback is a good word, man.

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .

People are always afraid of the truth.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

Spiritual practice is allowing the temple (your body) to be full of light and to live life as a total celebration.

It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.

I want to see how far I can go and how good I can be, whether it's in the classroom or on the football field.

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.

I will just put four or five extra packs of cigarettes in my bag and I will be fine.

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.

We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.