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

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.

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

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

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

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

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.