“I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while if you keep on walking.”

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.

I love being verbal in films.

Rambo isn’t violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

Like I said, I’ve got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn’t mean you can’t support them emotionally and financially.

Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that’s the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.

The moment I used my adversity to my advantage, my career exploded.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

I don’t think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career – it’s a life!

I’ve always taken things very seriously, since I was very young, and that’s reflected in my career.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

There comes a time in every person’s life when he has to choose the course his life will take.

People wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done?

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.