"I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy."

“I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.”

“If it's been done, do it better. If it hasn't been done, do it so well that better is not an option.”

“In all my years in boxing I'd never known such heat”

“The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are affected by zero-hours contracts, and the recession has and is affecting women more than men.”

“Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.”

“I am a very emotional human being and would say that I handle emotional pain in a healthy way by always letting it out and not keeping it in. There is no better feeling than allowing those tears to flow when I am feeling emotionally constricted. Crying feels so good sometimes, and I do it when I'm happy, sad, stressed, scared. I like to believe that tears are my friend.”

“Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.”

“A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.”