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'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.

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

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.

I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.

I think there's something about being a neophyte that's refreshing and hard to duplicate; it brings about real innovation. Innovation usually comes about through blind ignorance.

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