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" One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well. "

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" I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check. "

" I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me. "

" I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been. "

" I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of. "

" There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out. "

" When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am. "

" I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day. "

" I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them. "

" You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too. "

" I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people. "

Do The Right Thing

" President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat. "

" I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that. "

" Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor. "

" If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right. "

" I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see. "

" I wait and take on projects that I think can work. "

" I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it. "

" I am not a cynic. "

" I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics. "

" I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people. "

" I like four-hour movies. "

" I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again. "

" Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get. "

Beautiful Woman

" I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films. "

" I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated. "

" There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be. "

" I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them. "