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" Family is the most important thing in life, period. "

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" You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart. "

" It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else. "

" I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots. "

" I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut. "

" What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it. "

" There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful. "

" I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't. "

" I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die. "

" I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers. "

" I judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on 'The Right Stuff.' Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven,' which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart. "

" Clinton knew how to get things done. He was battling the Republicans, and then he basically took a lot of their agenda and made it his own. That's what Obama's not doing. "

" When I choose a movie, I'll ask myself: 'Is this a movie I want to see?' "

" It's about... my only strategy I've ever had in my career is to do as many different types of roles as possible, as many different types of genres. It keeps the fire in my belly. "

" Movies usually find me, but I'm open to anything. "

" I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way. "

" That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other. "

" I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will. "

" I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin. "

" I'm lucky. I have a high metabolism, so I pretty much eat anything and everything. "

" Your partner has to live with the best and the worst part of you, and they're affected by it. "

" I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball. "

" I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really. "

" You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better. "

" I would like my kids to follow their bliss. "

" Wall Street has come to America's heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know? "

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" I love to work. I actually enjoy it now more than I did when I was in my 20s. I don't know why, but I'm just grateful. "

" There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times. "

" My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience. "