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Change for me was really hard...

Change for me was really hard because I had built myself up to be a certain kind of man my whole life, as men are where I come from. I thought I got to handle things different that's gonna make me feel like a real pussy. For me it was hard to turn the other cheek. Even though it's a stronger choice. It was very hard to make the change, but I had to in order to survive. Otherwise they would have won.

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I'm an old broken down piece ...

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .

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Since I knew wrestling was al...

Since I knew wrestling was all choreographed, I thought, Oh, they don't get hurt at all. But I walked away with a renewed respect for the sport. Because I was very ignorant before - I knew nothing about it.

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Women are much stronger than ...

Women are much stronger than men. When a woman says enough is enough, which means enough is enough. Man will always lie at her feet in the hope of return. I was lying. And somehow happy.

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I wanted to change my name to...

I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.

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I have so many boxing gloves ...

I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves.

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All I am hoping for is to be ...

All I am hoping for is to be able to work-I think my best work is still ahead of me-I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.

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Boxers are very isolated - or...

Boxers are very isolated - or isolated within their own camps.

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I think the first year and a ...

I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.

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By the end of the shoot [of W...

By the end of the shoot [of Wrestler], my trainer was pushing me up three flights of stairs to my house and holding my arm like I was an old cripple. I had three MRIs in the first two months of working on the film. I felt like it really was over by the time we started shooting the movie.

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I was very ashamed of seeing ...

I was very ashamed of seeing a therapist because I thought only crazy people went, and then, after about nine years, I asked him, 'Well, was I really crazy?' And he nodded and said, 'You were but not any more.'

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I probably did a dozen plays,...

I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.

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I had a lot of anger inside me...

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

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I thought my talent would tran...

I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.

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Where I come from, being a har...

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.

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I never knew my father, and I'...

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

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I come from a violent backgrou...

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.

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I was very immature when I was...

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

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A lot of the stuff I am now se...

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.

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Comeback is a good word, man....

Comeback is a good word, man.

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