At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.

When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.

When I'm doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it's tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That's it. For dinner it's either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring.

I wanted to show I had balls at age 60.

Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.

I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.