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"I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy."
"You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny."
"That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise."
"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."
"Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment."
"There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him."
"It's funny because when Jason [Statham] was drowning I was filming with an iPhone. It may have been a bit insensitive but I just thought, "you know what, this was a magic moment". And I couldn't help him anyway because I didn't want to drown."
"Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer."
"If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough."
"The church is the gym of the soul."
"I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth."
"If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes."
"The more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now."
"I keep trying to tell people. I said, at 40, 45, you're at that crossroads. You really are there. And it's not like you can have gain without pain, but this is it. The days are - like when I wrote this whole thing about, in the beginning of my first magazine. I said, "If you live to be 75 years old, that's 3,900 weekends. That's it.""
"We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time."
"I don't fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door."
"I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today."
"I tell people diets don't work. And I don't care what they say. I have tried them all."
"I think I'm a much better painter than an actor."
"Without the church it's like having a boat without the rudder. You think you can do it on your own and this may sound pedestrian or trite but I'll equate it to this: all my life I've been involved with exercise but no matter how much - and I know a great deal about the body - you need help. You need a trainer. You need to go to a gym and you need to have the expertise and the guidance of someone else. You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and what the church is. The church is the gym of the soul."