Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.

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 come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.

Government! Government! What do I get for all I give, I'd like to know! Potholes and bombs!

Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world

Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.

Pocahontas, look at me, I'd rather die tomorrow than live 100 years without knowing you.

Everything you do is a seed that you sow. Seed bad, harvest bad. Seed good, harvest good. And the list goes on and on.

I'm not scheduling my entire life to death in order to be able do the work I've got to do. So at the moment I'm quite happy.

I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.

Behind discovery is delivery.

We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.