When people meet me they’re often surprised. I talk a great deal.

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.

Desire is the seed of potential.

We saw beautiful landscapes on the journey.

You're not a loser. You're almost as smart as me, which makes you one of the smartest people on the planet.

All sorrows are bearable if there is bread.

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

If you make meaning, you'll make money.

It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes.

I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.