As a hero, you have to play it straight. The audience is going to live through you, so you have to be more neutral. They will be projecting their thoughts and their actions onto the main character.

I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.

I've drank more beer and pissed more blood and banged more women than all you numb nuts put together!

One day you'll understand the sheer awesomeness that is me.

My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.

Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.

I've never had a good line. Well, maybe 'I must break you'.

In the normal life of an actor or director, running around, there's not much time to go to church. But there's other ways to be spiritual, too.

At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries.

I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.

The walls that we build for self-protection become the walls of self-imprisonment later!!!!

Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

Boys dream of strippers, men dream of their women waiting for them at home.

What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

I hit your thigh!” “Oh, please. A man doesn’t need that long to recover from a knee to the thigh.

[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.