Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

When you find the right components in your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you're invincible. It may be a fallacy, but you at least feel as though you can take all that life has to dish out.

Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor. "Rocky" was an ensemble film. "F.I.S.T." was an ensemble. "Paradise Alley" was an ensemble.

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

I'm a big believer that, in life, we can't succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.

Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad. We're living in the Dark Ages over there.