Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.

At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn't kill. He lets it live. Because you can't kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

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

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.

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.