I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.

I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It's therapeutic for me.

I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.

I'd just as soon do a big-budget movie as an independent one.

I'm not gonna rush out and see the next 'Batman;' I'm not big on formula movies.

I'm only as rich as my next film.

I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.

In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

It was either therapy or die.

It's no fun being a loser. Trust me.

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

My dogs are more important than my family.

People are always afraid of the truth.

People need medicine and they need therapists.

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

Sometimes, when a man is alone, that's all you got is your dog.

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

The hardest thing in life to do is to change.

The ladies love me and I love the ladies!