"I'm married, I've been married to the same woman for - well, I've been with the same woman for close to...long enough to fool around."
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"I avoid seeing myself while I'm working on role so I won't see "me.""
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"A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'"
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"If you're comfortable on a horse, you're comfortable on a horse. It's like being on a motorbike."
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"I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with."
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"Even through my good-looking youth, I wasn't called on for any romantic parts, which is okay. What I was called on to do, I enjoyed doing. The funny thing about life is that if you live long enough, I think, you'll get every wish you ever had. It'll all come true."
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"There are things that I would like to do, but I make a big distinction between liking to do something and wanting to do something. If there's something that I want to do I've done it. If there's something that comes up that I want to do I will do it."
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"Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not."
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"It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it."
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"I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff."
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"The main thing about awards in movies is that they can serve as an economic surge for the film. If you're movie gets nominated for any award it does it a big favour. People might go and see it again... they won't give up on it."
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"Insanity is coasting through life."
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"If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you thought of me to do it, I would be flattered to be asked to do something other than be wise."
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"It's seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I've worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that's the only one that's happened with, simply because I adore his work."
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"I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it."
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"Costume is always an asset. Normal costume you have a lot to say about - if you're wearing suits or ties, and what color you want, and how it's going to be cut, and stuff like that, and whether or not you're going to wear a hat, and blah, blah, blah. But, when you're wearing a special costume, and of course, costume is probably the second ingredient in character, script being first, I always find that the costume does a lot to cement your character, to put it firmly in mind."
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"People don't want to hang around someone that you don't know how they're going to react to anything you do or say."
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"I am passionate about what is going on with the oceans, mainly because we are for some idiotic reason, really screwing it up. I mean, we're really killing the ocean. It's like putting out the sun. Without it, there is no us."
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"I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it."
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"Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic."
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