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" Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero. "

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" I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. "

" I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in. "

" One of the things you can always depend on - this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here - whatever we decide we want to do is what we do. "

" The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit. "

" It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help. "

" And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous. "

" I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture. "

" Just that working with Clint again is like coming home. "

" Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance. "

" I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it. "

" And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter. "

" Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness. "

" I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving. "

" I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do. "

" The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him. "

" The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it. "

" It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing. "

" I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe. "

" But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it. "

" Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them. "

" I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it. "

" All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that. "

" And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in. "

" Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere. "

" Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright? "

" If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death. "

" Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen. "

" I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be. "

" I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. "

" I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring. "