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" My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general. "

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" What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it. "

" What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people. "

" When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything. "

" Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic. "

" Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's. "

" You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible. "

" I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character. "

" I love working in Texas anywhere. "

" As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while. "

" I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country. "

" Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't shout, you can't play one of those guys. "

" We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter. "

" When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home. "

" I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day. "

" I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher! "

" I'd like to direct again, but that's really hard to get something and raise the money. It's difficult to find just the right thing. "

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" Way, way, way back I played a little bit, but I am definitely not a golfer. You know, it just takes too much time anyway during the course of the day. "

" Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. "

" You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play. "

" Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review. "

" I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going. "

" Everybody likes to win. "

" I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict. "

" The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife. "

" It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre. "

" Art is competitive. "

" The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly. "

" You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich. "