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" In the kind of roles I do, you can do them and walk away from it and have a really nice time. "

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" I'm set in my own ways. I like to do the things I want to do when I want to do them. "

" Sometimes I do pinch myself about the life I've had. "

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" If you did something, and it wasn't right, you definitely found out about it. And they were pretty smart people, both my parents, so you didn't get too much by them. "

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" This face is nothing to brag about. I don't know what it is that these people see in my face. "

" Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director. "

" As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids. "

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" I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other. "

" I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case. "

" If I'm characterized as a character actor, that's fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine. "

" I was a policeman for 18 years. "

" I had seen 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' and I thought that was a different kind of film than I'd seen before, with that kind of editing and slick camera movements. "

" You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right. "

" I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap? "

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" When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York. "

" I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me. "