I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.

I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot.

Im always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in El Gringo; it shows in the new Universal Soldier. You cant rest on your laurels; youve got to keep improving.

You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.

I think every red-blooded male enjoys brandishing a firearm.

I'll be honest, I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be quite cheesy unless you do them in feudal Japan.

Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.

No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.

[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

I'd like to never be able to get pigeonholed, which is difficult to do.

Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.

Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.

As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.

Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.

Dont look to the sky for fireworks when you can watch them light up in the eyes of all the people passing by.