I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?

If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak.

I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.

Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.

The man who can best gets along with women, is the man who can get along without them.