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Where I Come From, Being A Hard Man Is Being Able To Take A Good Beating And Then Get Back Up Again And Carry On Fighting.

I Spent A Lot Of Years Trying To Beat The System And, In The End, The System Kicked My Behind Good.

The Two Sports Are As Different As Ping-pong And Rugby. In Boxing, You Don’t Know What’s Going To Happen. In Wrestling, It’s Already Prearranged. But The Thing I Didn’t Know About Wrestling Is That You Really Get Hurt. Because, You Know, You’re Wrestling In Front Of A Live Audience, And You End Up Doing Things Like Jumps Or Slams, And 40 Percent Of The Time You Don’t Land Right.

[the Tension] Between The Christians And Muslims Goes Back To The Crusades, Doesn't It? It's Too Easy To Blame Everything On One Guy. These Are Unpredictable, Dangerous Times, And I Don't Think That Anyone Really Knows Quite What To Do.

Years Ago I Realized That Maybe I Made Mistake, Politically, When I Turned A Lot Of That Stuff Down. I Would Go Off To Obscure Places And Make Movies That Six People Went To See.