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" There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be. "

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" I wait and take on projects that I think can work. "

" I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing. "

" I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them. "

" I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day. "

" If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it. "

" I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up. "

" When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am. "

" I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films. "

" You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted. "

" I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does. "

" I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice. "

" I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check. "

" You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too. "

" I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course. "

" Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life. "

" Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor. "

" I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse. "

" I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids. "

" One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well. "

" When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble. "

" I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular? "

" When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them. "

" I like four-hour movies. "

" I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it. "

" President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat. "

" I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them. "

" I like American history. "

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" When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation. "

" I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people. "

" I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched. "