Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.

There are endless exercises for arms, but the basics are best-chinups and pushups.

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

Children are the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. It hurts me to be away from them for a few hours. It really does. I love them and they're girls, so they know how to push my buttons. But I've learned a lot and I have to thank my wife for that.

I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.

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

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.