In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl.

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.

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

The course of every intellectual if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough ends in the obvious from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage.

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

Be gentle with the young.

Donald Trump is going to speak the truth to the American people.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.