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" I was drafted during the Korean War. "

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" President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. "

" Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid. "

" They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks. "

" The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals. "

" I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal. "

" In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am. "

" Men must know their limitations. "

" I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No. "

" Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum. "

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

" Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure. "

" I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. "

" I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad childhood and that's why he's eating people.' Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet. "

" When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it. "

" I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel. "

" Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match. "

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

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

" What you put into life is what you get out of it. "

" I think everybody has something that they've been obsessed about in their lifetime. "

" I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people. "

" Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer. "

" Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff. "

" I'm not afraid to look bad on the screen. "

" 'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out. "

" When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again. "

" 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. "

" I don't mind telling a dark side. "

" 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. "

" When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is. "