Training and working in Philadelphia is a very unusual situation because that city does believe that Rocky is real. No one calls me Sylvester, it's Rocky.

To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.

When you find the right components in your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you're invincible. It may be a fallacy, but you at least feel as though you can take all that life has to dish out.

A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile.

Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.

If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!