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" I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film. "

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" Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that. "

" The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them. "

" I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in. "

" I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything. "

" I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general. "

" It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script. "

" The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim. "

" It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period. "

" You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us. "

" People know everything about everybody now. "

" I use my film-making to work through my deep questions and my deep problems. I think I could watch each film and tell you exactly which part of my psyche I'm trying to work out. "

" When you first start out as an actor, you're just looking for a good part. As time goes on, if you're being held responsible for the movies themselves, you're looking for a good script all around. "

" Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties. "

" The only failure is not to try. "

" Republicans are good at standing by their candidate. "

" I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it. "

" There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on. "

" The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it's a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else. "

" The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.' "

" I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life. "

" I've been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I've got a really, really, really good life. "

" I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older. "

" I'm really white trash. "

" If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie! "

" There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peaceful. It's not peaceful. It's the most personal thing you can do, is die, and you feel almost like you're invading someone's most personal moment by being there. "

" Without question, I wake every night five times. "

" On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else. "

" I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It's an older country, and they've learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it. "

" I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out. "