Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.

The idea that boxing lends itself to cinema so well is because it's usually a morality play - good against evil, insecurity and triumph, fear strikes out, so the audience can really get drawn into the drama of it. Also, it was sensual and very primal. I think subliminaly we do two things - life is a fight, life is a struggle and we understand that from our early, early, early ancestors, and life is a race.

There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.

You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.