Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.

I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.

I started out as an actor, but I forced myself to be a writer, even though I wasn't very good at it and had never written. I don't think I ever passed an English course in my life. My first eight to 10 scripts were pretty horrendous, but I stayed at it, stayed at it, and stayed at it, until I eventually found a voice and a subject like Rocky that people were interested in.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.