If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

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

I've always boxed a certain way. But with Rocky, the character himself had to be kind of awkward. So I had to learn to fight that way.

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.

If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.

When you're younger you just want to go out and make your mark in the world and doing that, quite often, the people that you love the most and the people you should be closest to suffer from estrangement. I'd be gone nine months a year, so how do you know anyone? When you come home you are a stranger.