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" Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing. "

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" 'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer. "

" If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie! "

" I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show. "

" You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers. "

" Shutting down the government is not how you make government work. "

" For me, the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries. "

" I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being unemployed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money. "

" In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time. "

" I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house! "

" Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work. "

" I've been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I've got a really, really, really good life. "

" I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make. "

" I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes. "

" Over the years, over the history of our country, liberals have stood on many of the right sides of the issues. "

" I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film. "

" When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win. "

" But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older. "

" The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it. "

" I'm the old-fashioned type who prefers to meet a woman in a more normal setting. I don't like to feel that I'm being hunted down. I've always liked to do my own hunting when it comes to meeting women. "

" You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us. "

" I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my twenties and thirties. No Botox for me. "

" The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to. "

" I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general. "

" I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do. "

" I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on. "

" I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him. "

" I think one of the major misconceptions about me is that I live my life the way people think I lead my life, with hot and cold drinks running everywhere and a party all the time. They think of my life in terms of certain excesses that don't really exist. Things are actually fairly simple. "

" Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is. "

" In doing the screenplay for 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' the most important thing for me was to constantly go back to wherever the opposition would argue. So I had to keep reading all the books and articles about why McCarthy is such a good guy. "