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" Fate pulls you in different directions. "

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" We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has. "

" I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair. "

" I do believe in self-help. "

" I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy. "

" Just try not to ingest a lot of fats, and just try to eat carefully. "

" There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody. "

" You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who's directed, because an actor who's directed understands all the problems your production is going through. "

" I'm not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it's almost like we're living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it's like a big reality show. "

" I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not. "

" I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles. "

" As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success. "

" If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get. "

" Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving. "

" I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise. "

" I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?' "

" The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim. "

" Every story has its demands. "

" I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing. "

" There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it. "

" If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something. "

" When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is. "

" I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world. "

" I don't mind telling a dark side. "

" In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band. "

" Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. "

" Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match. "

" We boil at different degrees. "