I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking.

I think anytime a movie can inspire you to think and reflect and look at your life, it's a success.

Some people that are heroes to some can be looked at by another group of people as villains. As far as a middle point, just speaking for myself, that's exactly what to avoid.

I wanted to be kicked and hit and bruised up and beaten. It became something that was an absolutely necessary part of every day for me.

I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.

If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.

Bugs have always loved me.

I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.

I've never been a big gore guy.

The human voice is still the most paramount vessel or weapon to use, to uphold justice and to protest against injustice.

People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.

Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.

Everything I have is for sale, except for my kids and possibly my wife.

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.

No God without a world, and no world without God.

I am a closet metal fan.

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

It's not fair. Why won't the media leave me alone? Why?

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.