When I was like 12 or 13,Muhammad Ali gave me a pair of his trunks that were white satin with gold stripes. They were full of blood, and my mother threw them away. I think it's the first time I ever cursed at my mother.

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .

I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.

When I did Sean Penn’s movie, I think I was living in, like, a $500-a-month room, and someone called me up or bumped into me and asked me if I’d come up to work for a day. That sort of got me going a little bit. But it wasn’t until Sin City [2005] that I kind of got back into the game.

Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.