I prefer to channel my problems and inner demons through a character. Another persona. That protects me and my family. I can get my frustrations out that way.

I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.

I've drank more beer and pissed more blood and banged more women than all you numb nuts put together!

One day you'll understand the sheer awesomeness that is me.

My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.

Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.

I've never had a good line. Well, maybe 'I must break you'.

In the normal life of an actor or director, running around, there's not much time to go to church. But there's other ways to be spiritual, too.

At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries.

I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.

There's a great deal of power in pretending.

When our weaknesses affect health and friendship, we are very much aware of their existence.

The best part of my job is that it really isn't a job at all, it's a labour of love. Every night is different, the people that you work with are all tremendous individuals.

As a designer it's not my job to make people like me - I just want them to like my clothes.

In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

Donald Trump has shown that he will essentially attack individuals, make Second Amendment jokes.

Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.

I believe that in fact it would be economically reasonable and logical to reach a compromise [on oil production], I am sure that everybody understands this.

I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.