I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

In order to understand the stock market we have to realize that, like anything enormous and inert, it's fundamentally stable, and, like anything emotion-driven, it's volatile as hell. Got that? Me neither.

In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

A reputation is really hard to live down.

Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.

A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.