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!

Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.

In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

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

People are always afraid of the truth.

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

Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.