My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.

I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

I'll always be a foreigner.

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.

If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

I wish, when I was first born, the first thing I said was "Quote" so the last thing I said before I died would be "Unquote.

Poverty doesn't make parents unfit any more than wealth deems them appropriate.

If you are not in some way living your life like a Dr. Suess rhyme, than you may in fact be living it wrong.

It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.

To be honest, there is a tourists' trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.

If you’ve ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don’t write as well as you do yet are rich and famous while you struggle onward, this is the reason. They are great directors.