It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you get the movie out there, and we've been hearing good things. But you never know, you don't want to get too high, and you don't want to get too low.

I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors.

Every punch that's thrown is mine. Every punch that's caught, I catch.

If you want to be a warrior, you have to train.

In the movie I realized, I had the luxury of getting to see how the other person feels.

When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.