“At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries.”

Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he’s done some good action movies too.

When I started studying acting in New York, I didn’t plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn’t get out.

When I got cast in ‘Rocky IV,’ I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

I’ve drank more beer and pissed more blood and banged more women than all you numb nuts put together!

I train about four or five times a week. I guess I am addicted to it. I also do a lot of martial arts. More than I have done in awhile. I like to go back to martial arts because it makes me feel good.

The acting style that has emerged from HD, because of the contrast and how sharp the picture is, it’s more neutrally played. The main character is very minamalistic. That’s what works in this digital age.

I like being the villian. I don’t know if it has to do with my personality. You get to have a lot more fun as a villian. You don’t have to stick to the rules. You can be a lot crazier. You can go off the rails.

I’ve never had a good line. Well, maybe ‘I must break you’.

You can’t give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore. You beat on them, and they continue to stand there staring at you. That doesn’t work. People just don’t buy that anymore.

I try to keep the martial arts up. It’s a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.

You really have to work hard to create a three-dimensional character. You have to rehearse and explore and take your time. You can’t just memorize your lines and do it on the fly.

You get a bigger paycheck if you are the hero. There is something good about it.

Jebediah Woodley is one of those guys that when I’m sitting in my rocking chair one day, thinking back, I’ll remember that guy. He was a fun guy to play.

When I was a kid, I was like everyone else: afraid of getting nuked. We had drills in school – Sweden was very close to the Soviet Union. There was definitely a lot of tension.

It takes nine months for a baby to develop, it takes nine months to develop a character.

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

Books dont need batteries

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.

An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.