I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault.

Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.

I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it.

Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.