I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

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'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.

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

That's what really broke me, she was better than any fantasy I could hope to imagine. I've spent my life creating, yet she was pristine the likes of which I could never fashion.

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

Do right. Risk the consequences.

This is not the Spanish announce table!

On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.

I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we're doing. It's always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.

Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.