I think boxing is a singular sport, because the stakes are so high and because it just appeals to people's primal instincts. It's a life and death sport, and it's a sport of sacrifice. It's a humbling sport, and people are coming from humbling circumstances. It's always fun to watch a person that's come from nothing to having everything and losing it again.

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I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

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But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.

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Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

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You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

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You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.

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I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.

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You have respect and reverence for your characters and the fact that you're going to epitomize that person for the rest of their lives. They're going to be judged based on your performance by millions of people. You have a certain responsibility.

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A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.

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I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

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Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

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A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.

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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

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It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

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Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

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I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.

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Actors aren't fighters. They don't know how to throw a punch. So, there's a lot of hitting in the face. I'd much rather fight with a stuntman than another actor. I don't like fighting with other actors because somebody always ends up getting hurt.

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I love the fight game. I like the brutality. I like the mentality. I like the aggressiveness, but I like the technique and skill. I like the stakes. I like the people around in the gym. I like the everyday, working class feel of a boxing gym.

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I'd like to do more family dramas.

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