I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?

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.

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.

Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.

In fact, most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

I've never been on a movie where they play five-dollar Friday. I must not be very observant.

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

Have courage, be capable of loving.... Be happy in love. Be joyful in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.

My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.