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" Everyone has this vision of Jones as a maniacal ogre. Wrong. He was charming, sweet, and a fabulous speaker. "

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" That joy of a creative environment, without any restrictions, is hard to leave. "

" I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual. "

" I've got a family, and I love them, and I want them to have the best opportunities in the best country in the world, and I think we have to fight for it. "

" I come prepared when I come to work. Not just knowing the lines, but I think I know something about what I do. "

" I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story. "

" I was raised a proper Southern boy. "

" I've had presidents in my lifetime - and I'm old enough to have seen several - that I really detested, but they're still my president. I've had presidents that I've really liked. "

" Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me. Some of my choices have been more successful than others. "

" Some stars can make five or six failures in a row and continue to work - with a raise. I can't figure how that works. Maybe foreign sales or a smart agent. "

" We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else. "

" I've auditioned five or six times. I'm not very good at it. "

" I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent. "

" If you're down, it's curse; if you're up, it's a blessing. "

" There are more heroes than cops, FBI agents, and lawyers. "

" Sometimes, I feel like directors look at me and say, 'I want to put that boy in the jungle. I want to hurt him.' "

" The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare. "

" I'm really enjoying the character now, but I don't want to just be Philip Marlowe. I wouldn't mind playing him every couple of years, perhaps, as a kind of open franchise - you know? "

" The office of the presidency is what's important, no matter who's in it. "

" If I rob a gas station, I'm going to get 15 years. If I steal $400 million on Wall Street, I start plea-bargaining. "

" I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school. "

" I've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say. "

" I have always been attracted to good scripts and try hard to make characters as believable as possible. That means trying to figure out how they would react to situations, what they eat, think, and feel. "

" If there is anything I am about, it is I want justice in society. "

" It's never a matter of career decisions. I don't think in those terms. What matters is whether a role is interesting, if I will enjoy playing it, and if I'm confident I can do a good job. "

" When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man. "

" We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation. "

" I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers. "

" Any of us can sort of say we would do any number of things to feed our children. "

" When I first came to Hollywood, I played about as many guys who save the day and get the girl as I played heavies. It's just that heavies are more interesting and last in people's minds. "

" Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do. "