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" I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been. "

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

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" I like American history. "

American History

" When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble. "

" 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. "

" In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected. "

" I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics. "

" I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen. "

" I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe. "

" There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be. "

" When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them. "

" I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films. "

" Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor. "

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

" You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job. "

" I wait and take on projects that I think can work. "

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

" 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 like four-hour movies. "

" I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does. "

" There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out. "

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

" We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away. "

" I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of. "

" I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular? "

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

" Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice. "