Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

When I did Sean Penn’s movie, I think I was living in, like, a $500-a-month room, and someone called me up or bumped into me and asked me if I’d come up to work for a day. That sort of got me going a little bit. But it wasn’t until Sin City [2005] that I kind of got back into the game.

Since I knew wrestling was all choreographed, I thought, Oh, they don't get hurt at all. But I walked away with a renewed respect for the sport. Because I was very ignorant before - I knew nothing about it.

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

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.

All I am hoping for is to be able to work-I think my best work is still ahead of me-I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.