I had gotten injured during the boxing, and I was supposed to take several months off because I'd had a couple of concussions, and so I sort of just left the boxing and got into the acting by accident.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

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

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

I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.

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.

Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.