I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot.

Im always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in El Gringo; it shows in the new Universal Soldier. You cant rest on your laurels; youve got to keep improving.

You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.

I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.

I think every red-blooded male enjoys brandishing a firearm.

I'll be honest, I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be quite cheesy unless you do them in feudal Japan.

Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

I've learned not to put things in my mouth that are bad for me.

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.