A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.

When you're pushed killing is as easy as breathing.

Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.

In any situation, there is a sacred-solution.

You have my advice. Carry it with you. It won't slow you down.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

Maybe we should always assume the worst.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.

For my workout, I'm up at 4 A.M. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done.

When you shift your focus, you change your life.