“Rocky’ represents the optimistic side of life, and ‘Rambo’ represents purgatory.”

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’ve been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.

To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that’s love. That’s heroism.

You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it’s thankless and fruitless and you can’t accomplish much.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.

One lifetime is not enough to live.