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" My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise. "

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" I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out. "

" If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter. "

" There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq. "

" I'm so lucky to have been raised the way I have, because my parents believed that everyone had the right to their own feelings, opinions, and existence; as long as they weren't harming others, you had to defend those rights. "

" You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk. "

" When you first start out as an actor, you're just looking for a good part. As time goes on, if you're being held responsible for the movies themselves, you're looking for a good script all around. "

" I think one of the major misconceptions about me is that I live my life the way people think I lead my life, with hot and cold drinks running everywhere and a party all the time. They think of my life in terms of certain excesses that don't really exist. Things are actually fairly simple. "

" Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties. "

" My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It's something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey. "

" When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win. "

" It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the country in the best shape. "

" If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy! "

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" I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of. "

" I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate. "

" Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times. "

" The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny. "

" It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period. "

" I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show. "

" I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on. "

" If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie! "

" My life isn't focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I'm doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work. "

" I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It's an older country, and they've learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it. "

" After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy. "

" There's a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it's everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and it's shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting. "

" An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing. "

" The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them. "

" I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility. "

" But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older. "

" The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim. "