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I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

Fighting is kind of like choreography. It's not just get in there and punching someone: you have to have choreography. Someone is going to hit high; someone is going to hit at the bottom.

In boxing, you get hit, it's painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.

If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.

When you're in a fight, and you get hit, it hurts. And as you get older, you begin to take on the aches and the bruises of doing that.

I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies.

Street fight, you just ground and pound 'em. Boxing is totally different.

Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.

If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.

Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.