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" I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that. "

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" I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments. "

" I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. "

" Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with. "

" You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle. "

" Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine. "

" A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of those things where, by not being practitioners, they just came up with something that made sense to them. "

" I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling. "

" In my teens, I fell in love with the movies. "

" Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to. "

" If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game. "

" I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns. "

" Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it. "

" There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort. "

" I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies. "

" When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life. "

" Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. "

" I think life's an irrational obsession. "

" I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies. "

" I am a limousine liberal. "

" I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy. "

" I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema. "

" Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was. "

" I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times. "

" I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it. "

" So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in. "

" I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made. "

" At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch. "

" Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking. "

" The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus. "

" In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor. "