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

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.

I had gotten injured during the boxing, and I was supposed to take several months off because I'd had a couple of concussions, and so I sort of just left the boxing and got into the acting by accident.

Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.

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 ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question."

I've been with a lot of women, but who's counting? It's nothing I'm proud of. It's a physical need. Sometimes afterwards I just want to blow my brains out, it's so meaningless.