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.

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.

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

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

I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.

I loved 'Rocky' and 'Rambo', and am very proud of them.

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

I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief.

I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.

I'm pretty spiritual; I believe a lot in the spirit of man.

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.

Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.

Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

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 you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.

You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.