"I don't think I've mastered anything. I'm still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That's what life is like."
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"The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth."
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"The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I'd lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I'm not all that happy about it"
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"Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself."
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"I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new."
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"You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up."
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"[After playing Indiana Jones and Han Solo] hero image concerns me a little, though not for my sake. All it means to me is that I have a responsibility not to get caught doing anything terrible and thereby jeopardise my credentials. Not that I do terrible things, like running over dogs or anything like that. It just makes you think twice before you say or do things in public."
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"You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story."
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"You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come."
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"I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story."
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"I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'"
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"Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel."
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"I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous and useful and people who are thirty-five who are in lousy physical shape and can't think straight. I don't think age has that much to do with it."
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"The thing I always guard against when I'm talking to people I'm working with about a script is that there's a thing I don't like and it's called "talk story." It's when you're talking about the story; the characters are tasked with talking about the story instead of allowing the audience to experience the story."
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"The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away."
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"It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously."
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"I've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain?"
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"I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to bring to the screen that will help tell that story, and nostalgia is just not really a big part of my emotional package."
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"I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball."
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"You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them."
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