Actors Should Shut Up About Politics. They

I Get A Call, And It's Howard Bingham, And He's Got The Champ On The Line.muhammad Ali Didn't Remember Me From Being A Kid, But He Was Going, "yeah, You're In Bed, And You Want Your Mama With You . . ." It Really Helped So Much. He Spent 15 Or 20 Minutes On The Phone With Me. That's A Memory That I'll Always Cherish.

A Lot Of The Stuff I Am Now Seeing Is Edgy, Raw Kinda Material.

I Come From A Violent Background. So I Became Hard. I Realised That I Had Made Myself That Way To Deal With A Feeling Of Abandonment And Shame.

I Have So Many Boxing Gloves Around My House That I Would Get Them Confused With Other Gloves.

When I Did Sean Penn’s Movie, I Think I Was Living In, Like, A $500-a-month Room, And Someone Called Me Up Or Bumped Into Me And Asked Me If I’d Come Up To Work For A Day. That Sort Of Got Me Going A Little Bit. But It Wasn’t Until Sin City [2005] That I Kind Of Got Back Into The Game.