I'll be honest, I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be quite cheesy unless you do them in feudal Japan.

I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot.

Im always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in El Gringo; it shows in the new Universal Soldier. You cant rest on your laurels; youve got to keep improving.

You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.

I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.

I think every red-blooded male enjoys brandishing a firearm.

Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.

Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman.

Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the premiere and the thing is all long done.

I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great character.

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.

God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they had never the opportunity of performing.

Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Every day on the water is a good day!

You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.