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" If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line. "

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" The difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I'm capable. "

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

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

" Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you. "

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

" After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other. "

" I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed, 'Here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.' "

" Violence isn't really my thing. "

" I've never been all that comfortable in real life. "

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

" You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated. "

" Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying. "

" When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41. "

" I can't ad-lib, or not for long. "

" 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. "

" Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.' "

" We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way. "

" I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was. "

" I never caught on to being a bully. "

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

" You work at a job, and you reach a certain level, and you're a little satisfied, and you keep going at it a little more, and you finally finish it. You go, 'Ah,' all your dopamine receptor sites are full. You're satiated. "

" When women talk about their feelings, they're not asking for solutions. "

" 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. "

" Everyone chases a bit of what they say life is about: money, desire... But when you stop chasing, you realise life is a rhythm and it's very peaceful, very quiet. You see, it's quite a miracle. "

" American society is still puritanical. "

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

" 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. "

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

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