I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

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.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

One reads for oneself and for strangers.

Organisms are selected to deploy violence only in circumstances where the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs.

Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.

You might be a redneck if there is a sheet hanging in your closet and a gun rack hanging in your truck.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

Never say never, but there are not enough hours in the day!

Chance is a second master.

I'm actually for gun control -- use both hands.

Trust is the glue that holds everything together.