You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.

A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile.

Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't.

I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.

A lot of time people are like, "oh my God, you're stereotyped." Good, then you're known for something.

Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that only God knows its limits, we are only shells bobbing aimlessly in a calm sea of mediocrity. ...And if you can figure that out, please write and explain it to me because you're a better man than I am.

Boxing is a great exercise ... as long as you can yell "cut" whenever you want to.