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" I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again. "

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" I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see. "

" I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been. "

" I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me. "

" I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing. "

" I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics. "

" If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life. "

" I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them. "

" In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected. "

" You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job. "

" I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up. "

" I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?' "

" Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor. "

" I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so. "

" I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does. "

" If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it. "

" I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that. "

" When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them. "

" I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived. "

" You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come. "

" Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life. "

" I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched. "

" One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well. "

" I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it. "

" We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there. "

" I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated. "

" I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids. "

" Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know? "

" Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get. "

Beautiful Woman

" I am not a cynic. "