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" If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates. "

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" Acting is always therapeutic. "

" We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words. "

" Violence isn't really my thing. "

" I can't get any satiation. My brain is wired in such a way that I - in my research, I probably have a lack of D1 and D2 receptor sites. These are dopamine receptor sites, and satiation is a process that involves a cascade. "

" How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up. "

" If I'm not a successful human being, who I am? "

" The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school. "

" Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything. "

" You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. "

" I've been in movies where the movie doesn't come together but the role comes together, or the movie comes together but the role doesn't come together or something like that. Something misses. It's very difficult to make it hit on all cylinders - it's just very rare. "

" You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars. "

" It's fun to change your body and find new things that your body does because of the weight. "

" Acting is a bit of a substitute for life. "

" Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from one feeling to another. "

" If you had a cancer on your skin and had it burned it off, you'd wash it and clean it every day. "

" I'm glad I never went to war. "

" I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you. "

" Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read. "

" Yes, you can get addicted to exercise. "

" With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling. "

" You're playing a role, but you're still feeling it. You can walk away from it after 'Cut,' but if you're playing a sad or mixed-up person, it's hard to stay in that place for these longish period of times. You kind of have to check out. "

" In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body. "

" Electing a black president was probably the only coup America could pull off. "

" The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted. "

" You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry. "

" I'd like to do one European film a year. "

" If you get yourself in a hole, you dig yourself out. "

" The thing about '48 Hrs.' that really isn't thought about much is that's the first film where the black and the white criticize each other. "

" I accept the dying process. I would just like to be as healthy as I possibly can at each step and phase along the way. "

" I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn. "