“Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It’s much more of a business – very scientific.”

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.

At the end of the day, ‘Rocky’ is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.

I was an insecure kid. Once I saw ‘Hercules’ with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn’t be here today.

There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

Nothing’s harder than writing. There’s no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There’s tremendous support – you’ve got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it’s all you, and it’s just crippling when people tear up your pages.

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

Boxing is a great exercise as long as you can yell “cut” whenever you want to.