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.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.

I started out as an actor, but I forced myself to be a writer, even though I wasn't very good at it and had never written. I don't think I ever passed an English course in my life. My first eight to 10 scripts were pretty horrendous, but I stayed at it, stayed at it, and stayed at it, until I eventually found a voice and a subject like Rocky that people were interested in.

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That's where you set your goal.

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.