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

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

I'm the Hiroshima of love.

Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B.

The only thing that I haven't done is perform brain surgery on myself. I've been very, very lucky. I've spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that.

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

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