I Did Think For Many, Many Years

When I Was Like 12 Or 13,muhammad Ali Gave Me A Pair Of His Trunks That Were White Satin With Gold Stripes. They Were Full Of Blood, And My Mother Threw Them Away. I Think It's The First Time I Ever Cursed At My Mother.

By The End Of The Shoot [of Wrestler], My Trainer Was Pushing Me Up Three Flights Of Stairs To My House And Holding My Arm Like I Was An Old Cripple. I Had Three Mris In The First Two Months Of Working On The Film. I Felt Like It Really Was Over By The Time We Started Shooting The Movie.

Years Ago I Realized That Maybe I Made Mistake, Politically, When I Turned A Lot Of That Stuff Down. I Would Go Off To Obscure Places And Make Movies That Six People Went To See.

Comeback Is A Good Word, Man.

I Couldn't Direct Traffic. It's Hard Enough Just Acting.