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" The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center. "

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" With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives. "

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" My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus! "

" I'm an optimistic guy. "

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" Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything. "

" Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart. "

" When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move. "

" The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru. "

" My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don't know anything else, do you? "

" Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers. "

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" It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going. "

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" My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together. "

" I think sometimes in relationships, ladies like having a man who takes care of them, nurtures them. If you can't find it in a man your own age, you find it in somebody who is older. "

" I never really look at my movies. "

" I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be. "

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" In the movie 'Wall Street' I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings. The movie was fiction, but the problem is real. "

" Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you. "

" I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside. "

" You just have to know what your responsibility is to the movie, and live up to that, and be considerate of the other actors in the scene... I have never been competitive in that way - I always want my leading ladies to be as good as they possibly can be. "

" I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior. "

" During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life. "

" I had a great stepfather. "

" For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them. "

" There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life. "

" My marriage and my families come certainly before my career. "

" Retiring gives the impression that you're relieved that your job is over. "

" Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet. "

" I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last? "

" For a long time, I can't say I was one who really enjoyed acting. I was always censoring it, or editing it, or analyzing it, rather than just going with it. "

" I've always worked hard and played hard, and I'm sure I'll be cleaning up my act in the future. "

" I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while. "