I had achieved so much success in my career and then had this spectacular fall from grace that left me unemployed and living in a town, Los Angeles, that is built on envy. Once you fall, people don't really root for you to come back again. I'd go to restaurants where I always had the best table and half the time they wouldn't even let me pay. And then when I stopped making movies, the same places wouldn't even give me a lousy table, never mind the best one!

I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.

I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.

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

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

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