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" When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people. "

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" Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm. "

" My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn't take very good care of himself. "

" Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it. "

" 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'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more. "

" I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it. "

" Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it. "

" I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. "

" I guess I'm living in the present more than the past. "

" There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. "

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

" You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best. "

" Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected. "

" The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men. "

" I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too. "

" I keep working because I learn something new all the time. "

" I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. "

" I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No. "

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

" I'm not afraid to look bad on the screen. "

" In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band. "

" I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world. "

" Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure. "

" Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. "

" The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim. "

" When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again. "

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

" President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. "

" Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something. "

" God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don't have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I'm sure he didn't call everybody jerks. "