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" Often in films, you have no idea where you're going to be six months from now. And I grew very weary of that. And television, although it wasn't necessarily as creatively diverse as filmmaking can be, it was the lifestyle choice that I needed to make. "

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" I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems. "

" I never thought of myself as a wealthy person. I've thought of myself as a person who has had a lot of luck. I don't have the same stress that other people have, but there are too many things I could have done differently if wealth was what I was after. If I was all about money, I would have lived in L.A. "

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" There's a way I could have done things differently. I know that. If I offended anyone along the way, I do apologize. "