I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.

I am my own worst critic and I am hell to pay so I just have to do everything to my utmost ability.

Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.

In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.

When you don't have much money, you get creative. There's so much money that gets wasted on big movie sets. But when you don't have much money, you improvise.

I enjoy playing real human beings after playing a lot of larger than life characters. I love playing true to life characters and that is what I intend to do for the majority of my career.

Most people say I look mean, and because I play so many tough roles and because of my size and my martial arts background, they think I am, but I'm really not.

To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.

I don't cook. I think they named the 'Mike'-rowave after me.

I love the '70s. I think the '70s had the best music and the best movies.

I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.

As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.

It's interesting most people don't really know what a producer does and really the producer is the very first person on-site and the very last one to leave.

Wait! Don't applaud my cheapness! I've got other crap I need help with!

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

I'm coming to the artist with a smash. I'm like, "Yo this is a smash. We've got to go in."

It seemed to me that people do a rather good job of creating levels of hell all by themselves, and this was something worth writing about.

Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth!

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.