I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

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.

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 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.

Be the decision, not ego.

This is my mind, i own it!

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.

The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.

We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.

You made your own jean shorts...with a butter knife?

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.

Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience.

I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.