“When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.”

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

The church is the gym of the soul.

I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.

The only thing that I haven’t done is perform brain surgery on myself. I’ve been very, very lucky. I’ve spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that.

If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.

For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can’t all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That’s where you set your goal.

Plan B. You’ve always got to have a Plan B.

I know I’m incredibly unpredictable, and that’s the only thing I’m sure of.

Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.

Life’s not about how hard of a hit you can give, it’s about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

If you don’t have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there’d be bodies hanging from every tree!

When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.

I just simply believe in having purposeful relations, period. That’s what its about at the end of the day.

It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.

If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.

I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.