People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.

The champion's management says let's do this for real, for charity. Rocky says no but decides to be true to himself even though he's going to be berated by everyone. Just to compete, not to win.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

Action film is really easy to do, you just get in a car and smash through things and it's called action. The real key is what happens between the action when it's quiet. Loud is easy. Quiet, real hard.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.

Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.