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" Some stars can make five or six failures in a row and continue to work - with a raise. I can't figure how that works. Maybe foreign sales or a smart agent. "

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" When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man. "

" We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation. "

" I'm really enjoying the character now, but I don't want to just be Philip Marlowe. I wouldn't mind playing him every couple of years, perhaps, as a kind of open franchise - you know? "

" If there is anything I am about, it is I want justice in society. "

" I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual. "

" I've got a family, and I love them, and I want them to have the best opportunities in the best country in the world, and I think we have to fight for it. "

" If you're down, it's curse; if you're up, it's a blessing. "

" I come prepared when I come to work. Not just knowing the lines, but I think I know something about what I do. "

" Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me. Some of my choices have been more successful than others. "

" The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare. "

" One thing that's thematically consistent in 'Sin City' is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we're singing the same song. "

" I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story. "

" There's something about playing the baddies that people like. They're more fun, and people tend to remember them, particularly if you do them well. "

" I've auditioned five or six times. I'm not very good at it. "

" I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school. "

" I've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say. "

" I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it also to prove your manhood. They all couldn't conceive of why I'd want to stop to do 'The Importance of Being Earnest.' "

" Any of us can sort of say we would do any number of things to feed our children. "

" I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else. "

" It's never a matter of career decisions. I don't think in those terms. What matters is whether a role is interesting, if I will enjoy playing it, and if I'm confident I can do a good job. "

" If I rob a gas station, I'm going to get 15 years. If I steal $400 million on Wall Street, I start plea-bargaining. "

" That joy of a creative environment, without any restrictions, is hard to leave. "

" When I first came to Hollywood, I played about as many guys who save the day and get the girl as I played heavies. It's just that heavies are more interesting and last in people's minds. "

" Before I accept a job, I always talk to folks about it. 'Why does he kill these 22 people?' If they say, 'What difference does it make?' I know we have nothing more to talk about. A character has to be three-dimensional. "

" I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers. "

" The office of the presidency is what's important, no matter who's in it. "

" You don't do classics with a Texas accent. "

" Sometimes, I feel like directors look at me and say, 'I want to put that boy in the jungle. I want to hurt him.' "