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

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" 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. "

" When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything. "

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

" I love working in Texas anywhere. "

" 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

" Art is competitive. "

" I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money. "

" 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. "

" There was nothing wrong with shouting at God. "

" When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home. "

" I had a wonderful career. "

" Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result. "

" You know, 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. "

" Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't shout, you can't play one of those guys. "

" We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible. "

" Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic. "

" You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible. "

" Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life. "

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

" I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going. "

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

" 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. "

" Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's. "

" I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience. "

" 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. "

" I'm better than Olivier. "