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" All the pictures I do are contemporary. I've sort of discovered I haven't really been into science fiction or period pictures. And so, in that vein, psychological thrillers play a big part. "

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" I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time. "

" Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little pieces of innocence - to wake them and find they're so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it. "

" When I go on a holiday to a tropical place, I'll spray tan before I go. "

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" Paul Rudd is ripped. "

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" Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers. "

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" There is something about seeing rhinos and lions running free that excites you. It's not that you feel afraid; it's more like you're liberated by seeing them. "

" I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior. "

" I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be. "

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Started

" I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies. "

" I've always liked Tina Turner. "

" I've been dying to do a Marvel picture for so long. "

" You just have to know what your responsibility is to the movie, and live up to that, and be considerate of the other actors in the scene... I have never been competitive in that way - I always want my leading ladies to be as good as they possibly can be. "

" I think sometimes in relationships, ladies like having a man who takes care of them, nurtures them. If you can't find it in a man your own age, you find it in somebody who is older. "

" Liberace was one of the biggest stars in America. He was a kind of a phenomenon. "

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" To me, Bermuda is a real family spot. "

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" Religion has certainly been shoved down my throat. "

" My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton. "

" The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men. "

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" The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films. "

" Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain. "

" With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives. "

" I do think of myself as a bit of a loner, a bit of an independent. I'm one of those people who, when they're sick, like to curl up and remove myself. I don't like a lot of people around. There is nothing you can do to help. "

" I don't wish ill will on anybody. "

" My marriage and my families come certainly before my career. "

" I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles. "

" Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet. "

" My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot. "

" Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems. "

" I'm an optimistic guy. "

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