Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.
Let's face it, I'm a has-been.
I was going through a very bad phase when 'Kyunki... Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi... ' happened. I was just not getting any work.
The fans have been great, they've stuck with me through a lot of hit-less years and I think they were as determined as I was that it was time to put an end to the lack of hits.
I had a slow couple of years and people forgot about me.
There are times when your films don't work, your phone doesn't ring and you wonder what you have done.
There is a time in every actor's life when he has to face the self-created hurdle after he starts getting bored of work and suddenly realises that he is left behind.
Failure at the box office of some of my earlier films led to a lack of opportunity to play main lead in good films.
Gawking at one-time celebrities who, for whatever reason, end up performing jobs our culture deems a mark of failure is gross, but hardly a new thing.
After 'Big Daddy,' it was really slow. We weren't booking a lot, and we did a little bit here and there, but, you know, we basically went back to school, did what normal kids do.
When the first album came out and I heard 'Do It Again' on the radio, that was the greatest thing that had ever happened. After that, it was all downhill.
At the top of my career, I wasn't at the top of my game.
Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me.
I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
An actor is most vulnerable at the lowest point of his career.
I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard.
It's not easy to reach the summit of your career by the age of 24 - and for the years after to be a humiliating scrabble downhill.
That Bears quarterback is no good. He's washed up. He's 30.
I think that Ronda and I had similar paths in MMA; she became a bigger star than I ever was, but a similar thing happened, where the backlash from the fans happened after you slip up once kind of makes you fall out of love with it.
Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
I was in the wilderness of Hollywood for almost ten years. I was off the studio lists. I wasn't getting the roles offered to actors that hadn't done a third of the roles I had done or had the popularity I had.
