I was pretty much a child of 'Monty Python.' I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.

I am my own worst critic and I am hell to pay so I just have to do everything to my utmost ability.

Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.

In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.

When you don't have much money, you get creative. There's so much money that gets wasted on big movie sets. But when you don't have much money, you improvise.

I enjoy playing real human beings after playing a lot of larger than life characters. I love playing true to life characters and that is what I intend to do for the majority of my career.

Most people say I look mean, and because I play so many tough roles and because of my size and my martial arts background, they think I am, but I'm really not.

To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.

I don't cook. I think they named the 'Mike'-rowave after me.

I love the '70s. I think the '70s had the best music and the best movies.

I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.

Resolve to be thyself and know that who finds himself loses his misery.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

If you can differentiate a dead chicken, you can differentiate anything.

I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.

First and foremost, that's what I am, I'm a writer. I can't draw worth a darn. I don't draw, I write.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that's very disturbing - we get happy.

Mike and Harvey finally consummate things, a great cliffhanger

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.