Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.

I love art more than anything in the world except for my family.

I just fight in my movies, never in real life.

On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.

When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.