Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.

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.

The calendar is a human invention

You can reach the greatest height in the service of the Lord

The pain on the inside is what keeps you human, ' she said. 'Never forget that.

To get to where you need to be, you have to go where you don't feel prepared to go.

I think especially boys have a competitive streak when they're 12.

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To me, the Bible is a manifesto, a guide, a love letter, a story.

...maybe the world needs a cadre of smartasses to liven things up, who knows?