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" I like the way you can circumvent the media gatekeepers and go right to the people. That's my favorite thing about Twitter. "

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" In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel. "

" I was smart and married somebody who could do for me what I couldn't do for myself. "

" Guys are really lucky. We become our authentic selves the older we get. "

" I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they'll play him long after I have. "

" I'm a Hollywood pinhead; I don't know about political labels. "

" When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie. "

" A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing. "

" I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. "

" I am still in love with my wife. "

" My thing is personal freedoms: freedoms for the individual to love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the government out of almost everything. "

" My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive. "

" Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated. "

" I wouldn't be where I am today without my mistakes. Particularly my mistakes. Exclusively my mistakes. "

" For guys, I don't think you're ever ready... I don't think you wake up and go, 'You know, today's the day I'm going to get married. By God, I'm ready. My house is in order, and it is time.' "

" The cast of 'Parks & Rec' is just a group of unbelievably nice, humble, down to earth, hilarious friends. "

" The Brat Pack is timeless. "

" I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing. "

" I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting 'The Outsiders.' "

" I'm no genius, but I'm real smart in one area - I picked the right mate. "

" Getting married isn't going to make your relationship better. It's just a ceremony. "

Getting Married

" I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity. "

" In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously. "

" Fame is not a natural condition for human beings. "

" I'll never forget one of those things that my father said to me. My father said: 'You know what? We have had so many amazingly positive experiences that we would have never had because you're famous. We can stand to have a couple negatives ones, too.' "

" I have a friend who is very successful in business, and his motto is, 'Don't do what you can do. Do what only you can do.' First of all, you have to know what your specific, unique gift is and then you do that... every actor does that but every once in a while an actor plays a part that only they can play. "

" I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures. "

" To go from playing Jack Startz in 'Behind the Candelabra' to playing JFK in the same year, I have now operated at the far ends of my range as an actor. "

" I loved fun. I spent my whole life in search of fun. I have not given up that part of myself. "

" My issue isn't about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit. "

" To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality. "