I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.
I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.
People are always afraid of the truth.
Comeback is a good word, man.
I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.
A lot of those who let you down are those who seemed the closest to you.
A reputation is really hard to live down.
I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .
Actors should shut up about politics. They tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cosy up to some flavour of-the-month liberal.
I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.
Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.
Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.
Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.
I couldn't direct traffic. It's hard enough just acting.
I've been with a lot of women, but who's counting? It's nothing I'm proud of. It's a physical need. Sometimes afterwards I just want to blow my brains out, it's so meaningless.
Women are much stronger than men. When a woman says enough is enough, which means enough is enough. Man will always lie at her feet in the hope of return. I was lying. And somehow happy.
I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.
I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.
Change for me was really hard because I had built myself up to be a certain kind of man my whole life, as men are where I come from. I thought I got to handle things different that's gonna make me feel like a real pussy. For me it was hard to turn the other cheek. Even though it's a stronger choice. It was very hard to make the change, but I had to in order to survive. Otherwise they would have won.
A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.
I get a call, and it's Howard Bingham, and he's got the champ on the line.Muhammad Ali didn't remember me from being a kid, but he was going, "Yeah, you're in bed, and you want your mama with you . . ." It really helped so much. He spent 15 or 20 minutes on the phone with me. That's a memory that I'll always cherish.
I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.
I had achieved so much success in my career and then had this spectacular fall from grace that left me unemployed and living in a town, Los Angeles, that is built on envy. Once you fall, people don't really root for you to come back again. I'd go to restaurants where I always had the best table and half the time they wouldn't even let me pay. And then when I stopped making movies, the same places wouldn't even give me a lousy table, never mind the best one!
I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.
Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.