“Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that’s a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It’s how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.”

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

Now if you know what you’re worth. Then go out and get what you’re worth.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It’s not easier, it’s more difficult.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.

I’m perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

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

Remember the mind is your best muscle, BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains. Ride the brain train for success.

At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn’t kill. He lets it live. Because you can’t kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.

Time is truly the great enemy. It’s not the great healer, it’s the great stealer.

Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.

Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.

Speech is always bolder than action.

I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.

We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.

I like a lot of Tom Cruise’s roles, he’s this action hero.