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" I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something. "

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" Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment. "

" When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous. "

" When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers. "

" I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern. "

" Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion. "

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" Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector. "

" Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station. "

" The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that. "

" My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way. "

" I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological. "

" Acting is the way I make my living. "

" We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's. "

" My house and my garden are built as part of nature, not over it. "

" The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that. "

" I've always been a writer. "

" You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it. "

" Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage. "

" I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far. "

" The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship. "

" My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked around, as I still do, gathering impressions. "

" It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy. "

" Money is a way of creating scarcity. "

" People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America. "