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" The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated. "

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" You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him. "

" I just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go. "

" Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks. "

" I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair. "

" They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. "

" I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age. "

" A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama. "

" Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically? "

" In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest. "

" As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing. "

" Some people feel that the world owes them a living. "

" In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am. "

" I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel. "

" I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality. "

" It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives. "

" If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him. "

" You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know. "

" I've always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves. "

" If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures. "

" Men must know their limitations. "

" I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man. "

" We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has. "

" I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime. "

" I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them. "

" When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is. "

" I'm not a chick-flick enthusiast. "

" Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society. "