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

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 have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

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

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

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

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.

When you're pushed killing is as easy as breathing.

Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.

Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both original and valuable.

Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix.

If I'm training I'm cutting weight for a competition. I'm hard. I'm pretty much eating animal protein and that's it. No rice, no beans, certainly no sweets.

Acceptance is the act of embracing what life presents to you with a good attitude.

Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear.

Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.

I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for... what was it called?... Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing.

You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.