I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone.

Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.

You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.

The champion's management says let's do this for real, for charity. Rocky says no but decides to be true to himself even though he's going to be berated by everyone. Just to compete, not to win.

I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.