Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

It was either therapy or die.

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.

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."

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

Julian Schnabel painted a picture that he dedicated to my character in Rumble Fish. It was called The Motorcycle Boy. I remember when he brought it over to me at the Mayflower Hotel [in New York] years ago. This is when you and I knew each other.