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" I like to do things that I develop from the ground up. "

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" We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter. "

" The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly. "

" It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game. "

" I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day. "

" A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies. "

" But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds. "

" But I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century. "

" Way, way, way back I played a little bit, but I am definitely not a golfer. You know, it just takes too much time anyway during the course of the day. "

" As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while. "

" God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost. "

" I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country. "

" We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible. "

" You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play. "

" I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher! "

" Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie. "

" Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that. "

" I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife. "

" I'd like to direct again, but that's really hard to get something and raise the money. It's difficult to find just the right thing. "

The Right Thing

" You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore. "

" It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes. "

" I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character. "

" I like the good feeling movies. "

" I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet! "

" What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people. "

" Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie. "

" Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films. "

" Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne. "

" Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't shout, you can't play one of those guys. "