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" I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow. "

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" Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!' "

" What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it. "

" It's great to get paid for what you love doing most. To enjoy your work. And to follow that. It's important. "

" I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die. "

" I judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on 'The Right Stuff.' Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven,' which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart. "

" Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career. "

" I used to eat a lot of fish, but I've been shying away from it because of the mercury thing. I eat more beef and chicken now. "

" When I choose a movie, I'll ask myself: 'Is this a movie I want to see?' "

" Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together. "

" Clinton knew how to get things done. He was battling the Republicans, and then he basically took a lot of their agenda and made it his own. That's what Obama's not doing. "

" When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time. "

" Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic. "

" I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God. "

" You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart. "

" 'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way. "

" I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin. "

" I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then. "

" In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers. "

" I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do. "

" I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday. "

" In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think. "

" Families need a spiritual bond with one another and with God. God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together. "

" There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful. "

" It's about... my only strategy I've ever had in my career is to do as many different types of roles as possible, as many different types of genres. It keeps the fire in my belly. "

" What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots. "

" I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers. "

" I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him. "

" I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better. "

" I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much. "

" My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball. "