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" People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out. "

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" I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do. "

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" When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater. "

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" It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing. "

" As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less. "

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" I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh. "

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" Just that working with Clint again is like coming home. "

" I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring. "

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" Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright? "

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" Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better. "

" My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it. "

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" One of the things you can always depend on - this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here - whatever we decide we want to do is what we do. "

" Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies. "

" I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be. "

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" I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it. "

" People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling. "

" And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in. "

" I gravitate towards gravitas. "

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" Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy. "

" It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help. "

" I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in. "

" Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it. "

" Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness. "

" There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume. "

" I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. "

" I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy. "

" I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it. "

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" When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater. "

" I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. "

" I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving. "

" Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy. "

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