"Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself."
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"'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people."
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"I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you."
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"I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years."
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"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."
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"Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices."
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"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid."
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"Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted."
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"You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success."
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"I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale."
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"I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges."
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"Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot."
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"I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship."
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"If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job."
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"To me, success is choice and opportunity."
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"Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons. And to those who would use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid."
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"I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'"
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"You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow."
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"Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting."
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"If people recognize me when I'm out in public, I'm very nice to them. I'm very nice to people even when they don't recognize me. I don't even mind if people come up to me while I'm eating dinner, but if they recognize me while I'm having sex, I refuse to sign autographs."
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