I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

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.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.

To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.

Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.

There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.

What would the world be without him, and those like him?

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

Art's for art. Money's for pizza.