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" There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist. "

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" If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig. "

" It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies. "

" I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent. "

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" I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact. "

" Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week. "

" I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.' "

" There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything. "

" I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, was born when I was 21. And my youngest is 15 now. He was born when I was 40, you know? "

" I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff. "

" The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire. "

" If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great. "

" And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery. "

" I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly. "

" But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you. "

" But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time. "

" The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever. "

" Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk. "

" Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different. "

" As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out. "

" If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up. "

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" At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.' "

" Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are. "

" There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while. "

" As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good. "

" It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars. "

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" I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good. "

" Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason. "

" I think it's better to feel good than to look good. "

" You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos. "