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" I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN. "

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" If you're down, it's curse; if you're up, it's a blessing. "

" I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual. "

" I've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say. "

" The office of the presidency is what's important, no matter who's in it. "

" I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story. "

" There's something about playing the baddies that people like. They're more fun, and people tend to remember them, particularly if you do them well. "

" One thing that's thematically consistent in 'Sin City' is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we're singing the same song. "

" Sometimes, I feel like directors look at me and say, 'I want to put that boy in the jungle. I want to hurt him.' "

" I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers. "

" Any of us can sort of say we would do any number of things to feed our children. "

" I've got a family, and I love them, and I want them to have the best opportunities in the best country in the world, and I think we have to fight for it. "

" You don't do classics with a Texas accent. "

" I'm really enjoying the character now, but I don't want to just be Philip Marlowe. I wouldn't mind playing him every couple of years, perhaps, as a kind of open franchise - you know? "

" It's never a matter of career decisions. I don't think in those terms. What matters is whether a role is interesting, if I will enjoy playing it, and if I'm confident I can do a good job. "

" If there is anything I am about, it is I want justice in society. "

" I was raised a proper Southern boy. "

" I have always been attracted to good scripts and try hard to make characters as believable as possible. That means trying to figure out how they would react to situations, what they eat, think, and feel. "

" I've had presidents in my lifetime - and I'm old enough to have seen several - that I really detested, but they're still my president. I've had presidents that I've really liked. "

" There are more heroes than cops, FBI agents, and lawyers. "

" We all want to pretend that there isn't evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren't people trying to take us out and different things like that. "

" I've auditioned five or six times. I'm not very good at it. "

" We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation. "

" Some stars can make five or six failures in a row and continue to work - with a raise. I can't figure how that works. Maybe foreign sales or a smart agent. "

" The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare. "

" I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else. "

" I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it also to prove your manhood. They all couldn't conceive of why I'd want to stop to do 'The Importance of Being Earnest.' "

" I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent. "

" I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school. "

" I come prepared when I come to work. Not just knowing the lines, but I think I know something about what I do. "