When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.

When people meet me they’re often surprised. I talk a great deal.

I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.

Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ.

Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, "You Stink." And you got to deal with that. It's like being in front of the lions.