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" Just that working with Clint again is like coming home. "

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" People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling. "

" Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy. "

" But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it. "

" There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume. "

" Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness. "

" I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy. "

" I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring. "

" As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less. "

" Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies. "

" Black history is American history. "

" Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere. "

" Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up. "

" Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better. "

" I gravitate towards gravitas. "

" I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe. "

" I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be. "

" When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater. "

" I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in. "

" I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it. "

" Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them. "

" My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it. "

" Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive. "

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" It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help. "

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