I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.

By the end of the shoot [of Wrestler], my trainer was pushing me up three flights of stairs to my house and holding my arm like I was an old cripple. I had three MRIs in the first two months of working on the film. I felt like it really was over by the time we started shooting the movie.

People are always afraid of the truth.

It was either therapy or die.

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

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

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