I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.

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.

And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?

We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.

The gospel of becoming a good believer cripples believers

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.

With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.

It's always exciting for me to perform.

The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.

More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.

Like everything in life, I just had to decide what to do with what I was given.