I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

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.

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it's a 'cool' soreness. A badge of honor.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

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.

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

I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.

People don't realize that when they 'throw out' their back, it's often because of weak abs. These muscles are essential for lower-back strength and good posture.

Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.

It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

Whenever I don't get injured, the film is a dud. I didn't bleed on 'Rhinestone.' I didn't bleed on 'Stop! Or My Mom will Shoot.'

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood.

Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.

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

You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.

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.

Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It's not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights.

Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition, and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision, I have continued to use both medications.

People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.

There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.