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" I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up. "

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" Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20. "

" When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people. "

" Yes, I'm always - I'm always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it. "

" You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him. "

" I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy. "

" I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it. "

" Every story has its demands. "

" Just try not to ingest a lot of fats, and just try to eat carefully. "

" As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing. "

" You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around. "

" You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you. "

" I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that... I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time. "

" I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War. "

" Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm. "

" Men must know their limitations. "

" I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote. "

" I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him. "

" I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time. "

" My whole life has been one big improvisation. "

" It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character. "

" You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best. "

" On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made. "

" Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life. "

" There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person. "

" As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to. "

" Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that. "

" I keep working because I learn something new all the time. "

" If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get. "

" Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off. "

" I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff. "