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" I am a really writer-oriented actor. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day. "

" I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people. "

Do The Right Thing

" I am not a cynic. "

" I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see. "

" I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check. "

" What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it. "

" You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too. "

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

" If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life. "

" I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up. "

" I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.' "

" 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've always known that I'm a little out of vogue. "

" I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it. "

" We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there. "

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" I like American history. "

American History

" 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. "

" You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come. "

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

Beautiful Woman

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