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" It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper. "

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" I like working. That's when I'm feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that. "

" Men must know their limitations. "

" I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people. "

" On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made. "

" And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that. "

" When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me. "

" Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm. "

" What you put into life is what you get out of it. "

" My whole life has been one big improvisation. "

" You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you. "

" Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.' "

" Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure. "

" I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you. "

" I'm not a chick-flick enthusiast. "

" Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power. "

" I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet. "

" Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt. "

" My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble. "

" The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. "

" When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people. "

" There has to be something in every role that interests you. "

" Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days. "

" I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not. "

" The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about. "

" If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music. "

" There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. "

" A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future. "

" Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected. "

" There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can. "