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" Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie. "

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" If you had a cancer on your skin and had it burned it off, you'd wash it and clean it every day. "

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" I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you. "

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" I never fought much. It just wasn't my thing. I suppose I could, but I've never got into fights. Not a real one. "

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" In 'Over the Hedge,' I played a bear, and I spent all this time listening to the sounds they make when they fight and mate, when they're angry or happy. "

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" I never caught on to being a bully. "

" When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41. "

" In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body. "

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" It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it. "

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" Electing a black president was probably the only coup America could pull off. "

" Acting is a bit of a substitute for life. "

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" You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars. "

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