"Everyone pretty much acknowledges that he's the man, and I still feel that underrates him."
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"A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear."
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"I love the company of people. I always have and always will, it comes with my family. But earlier in life I might have got a little nervous if I was alone for a day or two in a row. I might think, "Where are they?" Now, I just go on doing naturally what I do."
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"Everybody's old enough for a beer, ain't that right, Mule?"
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"If you think you’re attractive, you’re always attractive."
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"I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know."
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"There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad."
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"If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women."
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"Life doesn't have to be about finding Osama bin Laden or becoming the president of the United States. Life is about the little things, which is one of the things you learn when you get older."
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"You make me want to be a better man."
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"Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot."
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"At 55 I said the probability is I won't have another relationship. I just didn't want to start another family. Between my own bizarre criteria and taste and the fact that I'm not available for many things I thought it was unlikely. Once you know the science about it, I don't think anybody should consider being committed to a real eternal relationship until you're through something called the infatuation circle."
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"I have a lot of vanity."
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"When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way."
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"We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money."
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"I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being."
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"I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way."
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"Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development."
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"Comedy is more difficult. You can look at scenes when you're doing a drama like, Maybe it works, but in comedy, when you're doing it, either it works or it doesn't. You have to keep doing it until it does, and the requirement is more."
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"Just let the wardrobe do the acting."
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