"I'm just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that's what they pay me to do."
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"Drinking again? Go to hell. All I ever do is make some movies that made a lot of money now leave me alone, I want to have some fun."
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"Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business."
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"I know how to be sour. I know that taste."
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"If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you."
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"Just the very thought of someone my age going to visit old girlfriends had instant appeal.Even women think, 'That would be interesting.' Not comfortable, but interesting. It is not a comfortable film at any point."
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"The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe."
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"My back hurts. My legs ache. I'm only four!"
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"Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can."
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"I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren's dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball."
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"There's definitely a lot of trash that comes with the prize of being famous. It's a nice gift, but there's a lot of wrapping and paper and junk to cut through. Back then, when a movie came out and people saw you on the street, their reaction was so supercharged that it was scary. It would frighten other people. It used to really rattle me. I mean, everybody would love to have their clothes torn off by a mob of girls, but being screamed at is different."
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"The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong."
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"To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it.""
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"I try to be alert and available. I try to be available for life to happen to me."
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"I act like a jerk sometimes."
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"The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You've got to give them a year and a half, two years. They are getting so much smoke blown, and their whole world gets so turned upside down, their responses become distorted. I give everybody a year or two to pull it together because, when it first happens, I know how it is."
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"The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation."
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"In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there."
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"You cannot pray them out of hell."
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"When you did the job, you thought you were just trying to amuse your friends who are all on the job. I'm just trying to make the sound guy laugh, the script supervisor. A movie like Caddyshack, I can walk on a golf course and some guy will be screaming entire scenes at me and expecting me to do it word for word with him. It's like, 'Fella, I did that once. I improvised that scene. I don't remember how it goes'. But I'm charmed by it. I'm not like, 'Hey, knock it off'. It's kind of cool."
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