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.

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .

If you look closely at some scenes in Diner, my eyes look like Dracula's.

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

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

Boxers are very isolated - or isolated within their own camps.

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