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.

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.

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

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

People are always afraid of the truth.

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.

I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.