I was very ashamed of seeing a therapist because I thought only crazy people went, and then, after about nine years, I asked him, 'Well, was I really crazy?' And he nodded and said, 'You were but not any more.'

I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.

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

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.

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.

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

I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves.