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

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

" I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that. "

" I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them. "

" 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 want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids. "

" 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. "

" We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there. "

" I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again. "

" I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check. "

" 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 know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?' "

" I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see. "

" If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right. "

" When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors. "

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

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

" I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course. "

" I like four-hour movies. "

" You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come. "

" 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. "

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" We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock. "

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

" You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted. "

" I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing. "

" 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. "

" President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat. "

" When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am. "

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

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

" I like American history. "

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