I learned my "facts of life" on toilet walls. I'd walk up in school bathrooms and there would be crude drawings and figures engaged in sex. That's how I learned.

You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.

Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.

I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.