Everybody has some talents - we all have an art side and some talent - but you have some areas where you are better than others. My area is acting, I guess. I hope.

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.

I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

I'll always be a foreigner.

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.

If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.

Dare to live by letting go.

There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be left-anything is better than separation.

I think people should give in to what they feel like doing at the time and be a raw animal.

extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress.

Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

"Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.

I am like a Rolls- Royce. I can run without an engine, purely on reputation

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.