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" I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously. "

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" I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He's always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I'm a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality. "

" I don't believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows. "

" It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you. "

" I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon. "

" I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career. "

" I'm realizing that for so much of my life I had an older viewpoint; I saw things as an older person. That's common among change-of-life babies. So I have this dichotomy where I'm either, like, super young or feel like I'm coming to the end of my years. "

" When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes. "

" Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky. "

" I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality. "

" So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth. "

" I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13' and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career. "

" I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited. "

" You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them. "

" I have a dance background. I have an athletic background. "

" You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend. "

" I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man. "

" I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature. "

" Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore. "

" I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing. "

" I'm from a working-class family. We didn't have a lot, but we had the arts. You're talking to a guy who is making a living at doing what he loves doing - acting, singing and dancing. So any career ups and downs were not that significant to me; the only things that really powerfully impinged on me were my losses, and there were many in my life. "

" When I say 'yes' to a movie it's usually because, to a greater or lesser extent, it's because I'm enthusiastic about the character. How well that character ultimately comes off depends on a lot of things: your relationship with the director and so on. But at first, you're on board because you think you can do something with it. "

" Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races. "

" Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude. "

" I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them. "

" I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities. "

" You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others. "

" I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll do: I'll turn on a foreign-language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole show, riveted, even though I have no idea what anyone is saying. I don't know why I find that so addictive, but I do! "

" It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time. "

" For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad. "

" There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth. "