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" I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience. "

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" Everybody likes to win. "

" I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America. "

" You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible. "

" You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich. "

" I like to do things that I develop from the ground up. "

" I like the good feeling movies. "

" Art is competitive. "

" It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre. "

" A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies. "

" I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes. "

" It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game. "

" I'm getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I've ever played in my life, in the most unique project. "

" The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there. "

" I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning. "

" Around my own friends, I like to mess around. "

" Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think? "

" Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie. "

" I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict. "

" I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going. "

" Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films. "

" Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore. "

" I had a wonderful career. "

" Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.' "

" What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it. "

" High Noon is a pretty corny movie. "

" I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day. "

" As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while. "

" I'm better than Olivier. "

" The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money. "