Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

I loved 'Rocky' and 'Rambo', and am very proud of them.

We follow a certain pattern, a maze, if you will, every day, tracing our steps into certain districts and neighborhoods and back home. So it's easy for people to relate to clichés. That's why comedy routines are based on mutual experiences of clichés.

Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.

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.

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