You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
Every time I’ve failed, people have had me out for the count, but I always come back.
When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failures.
Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
Going that one more round when you don’t think you can – that’s what makes all the difference in your life.
I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind and furious optimism.
When I was in junior high school, the teacher voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that’s just the way it is.
There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.
Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.
I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.
I’d live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
Don’t be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there’s a reaction.
It’s great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.
You’ve got to show your soul otherwise you’re just a piece of equipment.
I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
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.