When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.

When boxers are in the ring, they're simple. It's when the fight is over, that's when the other fight, the real fight, begins. That's the problem.

You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation. Putting my subjective feelings into an objective form and then on to you for a subjective interpretation.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

I'm a patriot of the heart.