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" I don't really go through a process, it goes through me. "

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" The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act. "

" I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott. "

" I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity. "

Self-Discipline

" I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character. "

" I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value of this?' I said, 'I'm not so good with existential questions.' "

" It never occurred to me to be an actor. "

" I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years. "

" Politics is not really my thing. "

" I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy. "

" It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others. "

" Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance. "

" My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember. "

" I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable. "

" If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. "

" If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything. "

" As an actor there are no drawbacks. "

" In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat. "

" I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch. "

" If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education. "

" Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part. "

" The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been. "

" I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can. "

" I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set. "

" Of course it's trivial, but then most things are. "

" I'm not a very skeptical person. "

" I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved. "