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

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" I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man. "

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

" As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to. "

" There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. "

" Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict. "

" What you put into life is what you get out of it. "

" I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection. "

" Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid. "

" Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. "

" They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. "

" You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good. "

" I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff. "

" I keep working because I learn something new all the time. "

" I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No. "

" I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding. "

" Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off. "

" Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm. "

" Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks. "

" My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level. "

" Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something. "

" 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. "

" In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest. "

" I just don't like killing creatures. "

" My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing. "

" I like a drama. "

" There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person. "

" It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives. "