I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names.

I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly.

With some basic skills, ambition and persistence, then there is little limit to what you can achieve, and by trying you can often surprise yourself.

Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.

It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before.

Everybody thinks that I did this and I did that, but I just went along with the times.

I've been very lucky in my life.

That's the object of going to a gym, having fun.

They came from all over the world to work out at Gold's Gym.

When the Earth basks in the Sun's brilliance, you'll find me there with my arms spread wide and my face with a smile.

When you have an unshakeable faith in what you seek, the length of its journey becomes irrelevant.

For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.

I don’t approve of religion.

One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.