When you're younger you just want to go out and make your mark in the world and doing that, quite often, the people that you love the most and the people you should be closest to suffer from estrangement. I'd be gone nine months a year, so how do you know anyone? When you come home you are a stranger.

Boxing is a great exercise ... as long as you can yell "cut" whenever you want to.

I love being verbal in films.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.

You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless and you can't accomplish much.

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.