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" Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life. "

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" I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so. "

" I like American history. "

American History

" I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing. "

" I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of. "

" I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived. "

" You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart. "

" We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock. "

" Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know? "

" I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that. "

" I am a really writer-oriented actor. "

" One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well. "

" I am not a cynic. "

" There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out. "

" Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get. "

Beautiful Woman

" If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right. "

" If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it. "

" You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job. "

" Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen. "

" President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat. "

" If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day. "

" I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics. "

" In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected. "

" I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?' "

" I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me. "

" I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films. "

" If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from. "

" I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated. "

" I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them. "

" I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again. "

" I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does. "