"I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age."
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"Having kids is the most innately positive thing that anyone can do."
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"I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about."
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"I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now. It's an old cliche, I know, but it's mine. I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural. So far, at least. Not that I wouldn't like to. I mean, I want to believe. I do pray. I pray to something ... up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess ... Do unto others: How much deeper into religion do we really need to go?"
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"It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion. It was then I started thinking that, contrary to conventional wisdom, film was the artful medium for the actor, not the stage."
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"Dissembling is a common tool of the anger junkie."
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"I used to be very quick, I would be able to leave the room and be back before you noticed. When you can't do that anymore you need to change the style of how you do things. But I'm very interested in life and you don't want to lose that."
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"There are short parts that I as an actor am very right for. Or I just like the part. Or you need someone like me for the movie. By that I don't mean at the box office, I mean in the execution of the material."
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"I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life."
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"The camera photographs what's there."
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"Believe it or not, I supported Richard Nixon on the issue of presidential privilege. How could anyone conceive of being the president of the United States and think that every single thing that you say or do can become a part of the public record? It just seems so stupid to me."
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"I've always thought basketball was the best sport, although it wasn't the sport I was best at. It was just the most fun to watch."
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"A man needs a private life. With no ability to have a private life, one thing leads to another, and before you know it we have Bill and Monica. We need to get real about things. Humans are humans. Why should we expect more?"
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"It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing."
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"A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in."
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"Children give your life a resonance that it can't have without them."
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"I'd give my goddamned soul for just a glass of beer."
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"The less people know about me, the easier my job is."
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"I never thought in terms of typing myself, because I wasn't that successful. After an actor has done a few pieces of work, his naïveté is the part of the craft he has to nurture most."
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"I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an actor. But it would be real stupid of me to do something for the money."
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