I get a call, and it's Howard Bingham, and he's got the champ on the line.Muhammad Ali didn't remember me from being a kid, but he was going, "Yeah, you're in bed, and you want your mama with you . . ." It really helped so much. He spent 15 or 20 minutes on the phone with me. That's a memory that I'll always cherish.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.

All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.

I couldn't direct traffic. It's hard enough just acting.