"What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety."

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"What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety."

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"It was either therapy or die."

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"I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job."

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"Comeback is a good word, man."

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"I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing."

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"I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there."

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"I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that."

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"It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars."

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