I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

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.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.

I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

And that's my honour, that's what my goal is, to always keep my mum's name ringing, because I know what sacrifices she went through for me.

I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.

When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.