"If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans."
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"Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else."
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"I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances."
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"Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love."
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"The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy."
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"I don't even own a cell phone."
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"Never rub another man's rhubarb."
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"I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy."
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"Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile."
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"I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability."
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"I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too."
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"I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don't."
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"Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time."
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"Once you've started a film you don't become a wet noodle. You must have that conflictual interface because you don't know, and they don't know. It's through conflict that you come out with something that might be different, better than either of you thought to begin with."
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"I'm very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I've always got on just as well with women."
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"Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need."
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"I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me."
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"Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why."
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"I'd prefer if people had no impressions of me. As a kid, I had to tell my own family, "Please, just don't talk about me!" Because they always got it wrong. Always. I just didn't want them to tell anyone anything about me."
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"There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn't almost totally enamored of the latter category."
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