No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.

I'm a patriot of the heart.

Training and working in Philadelphia is a very unusual situation because that city does believe that Rocky is real. No one calls me Sylvester, it's Rocky.

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

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.