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" My daughter doesn't even get my humor. She's like, 'Um, no. I don't get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.' "

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Domhnall Gleeson

" My Twitter reflects what's going on with me in my life. "

" It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth. "

" 'Leading man' just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie. "

" My dad's family was from Tennessee. I grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia, where we lived at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. As a kid, I was totally into Southern rock. Lynyrd Skynyrd. ZZ Top. It was so part of who I was. "

" Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes. "

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" Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order. "

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni

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" I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife. "