There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."

I don't fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.

When people meet me they’re often surprised. I talk a great deal.

You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.

I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it.

There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.