Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.
Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.
You can actually alter a person’s perception when they’re that young. I mean, it can affect them in a very positive way.
In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can’t control a nine-year-old girl.
If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days – it’s possible to do extraordinary feats.
You know what I think happened? After ‘Rocky,’ I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.
I tell people diets don’t work. And I don’t care what they say. I have tried them all.
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I’ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it’s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.
I think that’s become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family – a statement – and you can afford it, then that’s a noble project.
You know you’ve been around when they start to remake your own movies when you’re still alive.
Whenever I don’t get injured, the film is a dud. I didn’t bleed on ‘Rhinestone.’ I didn’t bleed on ‘Stop! Or My Mom will Shoot.’
When I’m on a location, I pick a restaurant that’s close and private and eat all my meals there.
When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn’t expect me in comedies or musicals.
When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.
When boxers are in the ring, they’re simple. It’s when the fight is over, that’s when the other fight, the real fight, begins. That’s the problem.
I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just reduce the amount, even if it’s horrible stuff. That you can deal with it.
When people meet me, they’re often surprised – I talk a great deal.
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.
I think I came along at an opportune time. I don’t know if that would happen anymore, because the whole way of doing business in Hollywood has changed.
The church is the gym of the soul.