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

The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.

I love the whole world of boxing and the sense of community that exists there.

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

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.

You think like a boxer and behave like a boxer, and you try to live your life that way, being in the gym all the time and being careful to push the plate away at the dinner table. You don't need dessert. When you're out having fun, you ask for agua instead of vodka. It's very important.