"I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time."
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"I'm a patriot of the heart."
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"I love being verbal in films."
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"Ya gotta do what ya gotta do."
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"In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl."
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"With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter."
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"Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me."
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"Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film."
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"I know I'm incredibly unpredictable, and that's the only thing I'm sure of."
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"When you're younger you just want to go out and make your mark in the world and doing that, quite often, the people that you love the most and the people you should be closest to suffer from estrangement. I'd be gone nine months a year, so how do you know anyone? When you come home you are a stranger."
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"I have all kinds of chest injuries; I tore my vein during 'Rocky II' and had 60 stitches. If you've seen 'Rocky Balboa,' you'll know how bad they look."
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"I would never run for president."
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"I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can run the whole spectrum. "I can do it all. I can do minimalism, and I can do classical art." Well, that's not true."
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"I wanted to show I had balls at age 60."
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"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."
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"Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, "You Stink." And you got to deal with that. It's like being in front of the lions."
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"I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful."
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"I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River."
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"People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator."
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"Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction."
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