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" One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene. "

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" Family is the most important thing in life, period. "

" Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career. "

" You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart. "

" I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will. "

" Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate. "

" Movies usually find me, but I'm open to anything. "

" I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball. "

" I don't see how it's a risky thing to take a great part with a great director and a great script. That, to me, is not really a dangerous, risky proposition. It's actually a really good choice. "

" I still have my original love for acting. That's why I feel so lucky. I think that's what sustains me in the sort of leaner times. "

" It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else. "

" I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies. "

" I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots. "

" I judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on 'The Right Stuff.' Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven,' which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart. "

" I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell. "

" Clinton knew how to get things done. He was battling the Republicans, and then he basically took a lot of their agenda and made it his own. That's what Obama's not doing. "

" I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come. "

" I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories. "

" I try to be eclectic in my choice of films. If I've done anything that's intentional in my career, it's to try to do as many different types of characters and as many different types of genres of movies that I can. "

" For many years, I was obsessed about what I was eating, how many calories it had, and how much exercise I'd have to do. "

" I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how. "

" Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together. "

" I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted. "

" I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then. "

" In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think. "

" Golf is meaningless, but it means so much. "

" I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked. "

" I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers. "

" I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow. "