1. “Time is truly the great enemy. It’s not the great healer, it’s the great stealer.”
2. “The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.”
3. “You are what you leave behind.”
4. “Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.”
5. “If you’re gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.”
6. “I just fight in my movies, never in real life.”
7. “I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.”
8. “Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.”
9. “No one’s life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there’s little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.”
10. “I am really a manifestation of my own fantasy.”
11. “Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.”
12. “The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think.”
13. “Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.”
14. “Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.”
15. “When you’re an actor, you’re a slave to other people’s visions.”
16. “Usually whenever you’re scared of something, do it. If you’re not afraid of it, don’t do it.”
17. “Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.”
18. “I’m a big believer that, in life, we can’t succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.”
19. “I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.”
20. “Clothing is the first step to building a character.”
21. “A lot of guys don’t want to admit that they have a prosperity for generosity and for violence.”
22. “If you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.”
23. “All young men want to prove themselves.”
24. “I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.”
25. “Nothing is real if you don’t believe in who you are!”
26. “I’d rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.”
27. “Rambo isn’t violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.”
28. “Study people’s success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.”
29. “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.”
30. “Now if you know what you’re worth. Then go out and get what you’re worth.”
