Most guys, tough or not, hide emotions. I know a lot of tough guys; they're just as weak as the next man, but they don't show it.

The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level.

In L.A., it's very hard to have some kind of conscience of some style out there. The weather's too hot; there's no seasons.

I know, a lot of the films I've done, it's obvious I'm going to beat up six guys and just walk out the door. There's not a lot of motivating factors - it's just action for the sake of action.

A movie, it's like a very complicated timepiece. There's a lot of wheels in a watch. And some of those wheels, if they don't turn right, then, you know, the watch ain't gonna tell the time.

If we want to talk about the movies that have made an impact in what I do in the action realm - Bruce Lee in 'Enter the Dragon.' I've watched that countless times.

If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.

It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.

I don't do isolation body building; I just do practical things that help me with the kind of things that are asked of me in action movies. You know, a lot of kick boxing, a lot of sparring.

Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.

A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.

Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set, and you're working out, you're going to feel good.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

“Please quote me right!”

“The ‘public’ scares me, but people I trust.”

“I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.”

“Anything’s possible, almost.”

“This is supposed to be an art form, not just a manufacturing establishment. The sensitivity that helps me to act, you see, also makes me react. An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.”

“I never wanted to be Marilyn — it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.”

“Its not too much fun to know yourself too well or think you do — everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through and past the falls.”

“You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.”

“This is a free and democratic country and no one has a monopoly on anything.”

“For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.”

“I’m trying to find the nailhead, not just strike the blow.”

“Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.”

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”

“It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.”

“Acting isn’t something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you’re going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.”

“I love a natural look in pictures. I like people with a feeling one way or another — it shows an inner life. I like to see that there’s something going on inside them.”

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”

“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”

“If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.”

“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”

“If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”

“To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.”

“I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.”

“You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.”

“Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.”

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.”

“The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.”

“The facts of life are conservative.”

“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.”

“Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”

“Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.”

“Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.”

“Of course, to be a mother and a housewife is a vocation of a very high kind. But I simply felt that it was not the whole of my vocation. I knew that I also wanted a career. A phrase that Irene Ward, MP for Tynemouth, and I often used was that ‘while the home must always be the centre of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions’.”

“Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.”

“It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.”

“Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.”