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"The Pixar people continuously amaze me. They come up with something that actually looks as though it takes place in this happy, real-world. Every plot line is not just plausible, but oddly authentic. The stories are full of adventure, humor and love. The characters are written with great human dimension. I don't know how they do it but they astound me."
"In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks."
"I don't think anybody's mind's gonna be changed."
"I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At the end of the day, who gives a ... . Good for you. This is America. Vote your conscience."
"I have a woman who teaches me what love is every day. Maybe that sentiment is possible to fake, but for me it's really true."
"I'm not saying I'm not bummed if a movie doesn't do well, but that isn't the final analysis of whether it's any good."
"My son is a gentleman and a professional who is pursuing something difficult. Yet the only thing he has ever asked me for is advice - never favors. He has just said, "What do you think I should do, Dad?" It's extraordinary to me that my son would listen to and have faith in whatever wisdom I can offer."
"Everyone says, "You have to work at relationships." Sometimes you've got to work, but if you're working 60 percent of the time and only enjoying it 40 percent..."
"All that most parents hope is that their children are happy, funny, well adjusted, and have a passion for something in their lives. What would negate everything is if the next generation that we're responsible for has a passionless existence. And that's cause for occasional sleepless nights."
"Work in the theater is more fun than fun."
"I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category."
"A lot of people would flee from what they think is award-show cheesiness, and I don't. I often joke that my speeches are very personal moments that play themselves out in front of billions of people."
"Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore."
"I would like to think I've reflected the audience's lives somehow, though it's in this big, false, glamorous arena of movies. I hope people see themselves somehow up on the screen."
"The easiest thing to do is to rag on the media, because it isn't doing a very good job right now. It is so much easier to profit from celebrating the worst aspects of ourselves. Acting strikes me as the antithesis of that. We can examine the worst aspects of ourselves, but we don't have to celebrate them."
"I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role."
"I hope my kids understand that they're not operating in a normal world. And yet there are principles they have to adhere to that are normal - like decency, choosing between right and wrong, and honesty. That's important stuff, whether you're flying first-class or not."
"But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44."
"I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff."
"There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything."