I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

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.

Excavating miracles was his calling.

Learn to struggle in all four seasons, for opportunity has no date or an exact time to find, you will only get what you need by trying everthing you know, without fear or shame.

We want to change from featureless caterpillars to become beautiful butterflies, and the change takes place wrapped up in our own little cocoons.

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

Rex brings out the macho talk and tells everyone this is what we're going to be and what we're going to do. And you see what happened. The players did it. It worked.

We're all pretty ordinary on paper.

I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.