I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

I've not made a career of being physical in my movies, but I love sports. I'm a very physical guy.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

I think boxing is a singular sport, because the stakes are so high and because it just appeals to people's primal instincts. It's a life and death sport, and it's a sport of sacrifice. It's a humbling sport, and people are coming from humbling circumstances. It's always fun to watch a person that's come from nothing to having everything and losing it again.

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

I love the fight game. I like the brutality. I like the mentality. I like the aggressiveness, but I like the technique and skill. I like the stakes. I like the people around in the gym. I like the everyday, working class feel of a boxing gym.

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.