Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.

I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.

Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone.

I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

There'll never be a 'Rocky IV.' You gotta call a halt.

People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood.