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" A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies. "

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" It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes. "

" Everybody likes to win. "

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" As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while. "

" Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie. "

" You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play. "

" Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. "

" I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier. "

" Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result. "

" The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly. "

" My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher. "

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" I like to do things that I develop from the ground up. "

" It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game. "

" One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it. "

" What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it. "

" I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character. "

" Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic. "

" We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter. "

" Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review. "

" Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't shout, you can't play one of those guys. "

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" I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America. "

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" I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century. "

" I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes. "

" Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. "