"My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor."
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"The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory."
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"Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth."
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"Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot."
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"The Force is within you. Force yourself."
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"With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion."
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"All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms."
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"I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars."
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"The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie."
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"If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes."
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"I don't want to be a slave to electronic devices. I don't want to be connected to my friends. I don't want to send snapshots of my dog and cute pictures of my family life to my friends and family. I don't want to be liked, by pushing a button. I use all of this technology to basically replace devices that I had in the past which worked just fine."
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"I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit."
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"What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are."
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"We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the case. Our government is not doing all that it could. We must urge our leaders to fulfill the obligations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States must assume world leadership to end once and for all the threat of nuclear war. It is our moral responsibility."
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"You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit."
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"I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy."
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"Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high."
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"What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily."
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"There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to explore a bit. But what I saw there was an opportunity to play a character different from what the audience's expectation was. A chance to take their crude experience of me - of my iconography, if you will - and turn it on its ear at an appropriate juncture in the film to be useful to the process of telling the story."
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"I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up."
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