"I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism."
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"What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan."
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"The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble."
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"I just like stories about redemption about getting a second chance at life, I think everyone in the world has a few major mistakes they've made in there lives and if they could just go back and correct it... but, unfortunately they don't get a chance usually it's almost impossible."
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"I'm the Hiroshima of love."
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"You are what you leave behind."
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"Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back."
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"To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism."
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"Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially."
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"My favorite snack would have to be Fritos, no doubt about it. Fritos and mayonnaise. I know. Really healthy, isn't it?"
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"The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy."
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"If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!"
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"All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves."
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"I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour."
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"I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project."
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"I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes."
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"I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous."
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"I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love."
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"When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures."
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"Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department."
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