Boxing is a place where, if you haven't done the training, that's going to be exposed very quickly.

I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happy with my career as an actor. I made the right choice.

Boxing is a place where, if you haven't done the training, that's going to be exposed very quickly.

I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like 'Raging Bull', 'Rocky', 'The Set Up', 'Fat City and Hard Times'. I just loved those films.

I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.

As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you're holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it's one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you're lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category.