"Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is."
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"You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of."
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"I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents."
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"The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with."
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"I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed."
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"Just that working with Clint again is like coming home."
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"If we don't save the oceans, if we don't do something about what we're doing to the oceans, as well as the planet at large, we're going to be really sorry."
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"I don't have anybody telling me what to say. I have people who would suggest, maybe, that I shouldn't do this, that or the other, but that's strictly up to me."
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"You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business. So, if you've got a writer who's clever enough to give you enough clues, you will fill out every blank spot in a play, every single one."
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"Everybody works the same, but the preparation very often may be different. You cannot work differently. You have to say the words that were written on the page, and you have to make your marks. That's the work."
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"If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that."
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"Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy."
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"The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new rules. It's something you always have to work at; you don't get perfect at golf. It's the never-ending quest for betterment."
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"I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it."
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"I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film."
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"Nobody is trying to save energy. We're trying to shift our use of fuel. Forget saving energy; if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts."
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"Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren't hanging out there, you don't offer anything."
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"Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material."
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"I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was."
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"It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other."
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