Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone.

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.

I think he's got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.

In seeking success you must also seek fulfillment. Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be.

With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin.

I was 19 when I recorded my first album, and I've been exposed to many things during these last few years; all the baby fat is gone.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.

My girlfriend does her nails with white-out. When she's asleep, I go over there and write misspelled words on them.

It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it.