I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happy with my career as an actor. I made the right choice.

You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.

The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.

I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.

You can get into a place in your life where you no longer are in control of events, and events are in control of you.

I love boxing, and boxing has always been my favorite sport. I was always into it, and I boxed recreationally all of my life.

I love the whole world of boxing and the sense of community that exists there.

If you're going to play a champion athlete, people expect you to look a certain way, and you also have to have the stamina to be able to continue to perform.

Boxing is a place where, if you haven't done the training, that's going to be exposed very quickly.

I watched tapes and became a historian of the sport, and tried to combine certain elements and find things in the gym and saw what worked for me.

I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

In running back and forth among the things that might be important, we forget to spend enough time on what really is important.

I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

I don't see art as entertainment.

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it.

Earlier this year I had my hair feng-shuied.

A new study found that a mother's diet affects her baby's allergies. Which can only mean one thing: My mom ate cats.

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe.