I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

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.

The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.

I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

My kids and I make pasta three days a week now. It's not even so much about the eating of it; they just like the process. Benno is the stuffer, and Leo is the catcher. They've got their jobs down.

As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.

Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.

The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.