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" The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife. "

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" I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier. "

" Well, I had a wonderful career. "

" My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general. "

" There was nothing wrong with shouting at God. "

" But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds. "

" A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies. "

" It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre. "

" I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict. "

" My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher. "

" Around my own friends, I like to mess around. "

" You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play. "

" Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore. "

" I'd like to direct again, but that's really hard to get something and raise the money. It's difficult to find just the right thing. "

The Right Thing

" I like the good feeling movies. "

" Well, I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife. "

" I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher! "

" It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game. "

" We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter. "

" If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow. "

" I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes. "

" I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife. "

" God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost. "

" Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think? "

" But I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century. "

" I like to do things that I develop from the ground up. "

" I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet! "

" I'm better than Olivier. "

" Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films. "

" What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people. "

" It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes. "