"Schwarzenegger is my role model since he is successful but, as an actor, he is not [my role model]. I prefer Sean Connery, Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford. They too started as 'beef cakes' but have since established themselves as acknowledged actors". "When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out. Then I got caught up taking my shirt off and strapping a machine gun on to shoot people. There wasn't really much acting - you couldn't have done too much with those roles no matter how good you were." (in Empire (UK), January 1996) "I was a movie star before having the chance to become an actor, so now I'm trying to backtrack." (in "Vanity Fair", 1995) "I was incredibly shy when I first got into the business, I still am to some extent. I've overcome that shyness through contact sports, but I wanted to find that same confidence interacting with people through acting instead of in the ring." "Action films are an extension of Greek myths which have been around since Homer's The Iliad. Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves. With an action film its just more apparent. That's why people will always love action movies."

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