You basically have to trick yourself into incredible intensity to do this stuff, and I do a good job of pretending that I'm racing to save my mom from getting killed or my sister from being raped—some horrible thing that causes me to dig deep, like old-school 'Braveheart' s—-. If you come into battle with that in your head, you're gonna be a different person than if you think you're just going out for a little swordfight. But when you do that for 10 years straight, it wears your a— out. It's like crying wolf to yourself a million times. And at some point, you start to say, 'Why am I doing this?'

Interview with Newsweek, Nov. 2005, pub. 23 Feb. 2006