Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.