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"Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor."
"My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish."
"When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out."
"[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over."
"Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy."
"You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something — I am God."
"Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful."
"Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes."
"I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States."
"There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time."
"Down with Dukes of Hazzard!"
"Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately."
"Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious."
"You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later."
"Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with."
"I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you."
"Most women in leading roles are very boyish looking. The one girl working right now who I think is a real beauty in a classic sense - the only real 12-cylinder engine - is Catherine Zeta-Jones."
"You've got to see someone at their worst and ask yourself if you can handle it."
"Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!"
"I remember during my lifetime I would meet women, and it was almost like God would say to me, 'Now, this woman here is not the one you are going to end up with, but she is going to be a lot like this woman; look at this woman, study this woman.' And when my wife showed up, He was like, 'You recognize her now?'"