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" After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about getting attention. I get all the attention I could ever need, so I kind of like being in a minivan and people not paying so much attention to me. "

" After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy. "

" America can't beat anyone anymore. "

" An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing. "

" Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times. "

" Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting. "

" As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of. "

" But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older. "

" Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting. "

" Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint. "

" Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says. "

" Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes. "

" Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful. "

" For me, the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries. "

" Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart. "

" Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing. "

" Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is. "

" Honestly, as you can imagine, it really isn't all that fun directing yourself, running back and forth to the monitors to see if you're terrible or not. "

" Hosting is work. It means you don't get to go up to your room and disappear and take a nap. Like everybody else does after lunch. I'm talking about hosting, not hosting a dinner party, but hosting people staying in your home. "

" I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches. "

" I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house! "

" I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it. "

" I certainly direct with confidence even if I'm not confident. I learned early on as an actor that confidence can be faked, and it's not always a terrible thing to do. A lot of times if people feel you're confident, then they're confident. "

" 'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer. "

" I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed. "

" I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this. "

" I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out. "

" I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life. "

" I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him. "

" I don't go on that many dates, because the truth is, anytime you go out in public with a girl when you're well-known, there are pictures of you everywhere, and it's like you're a thing. "

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