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" When I was younger, I wanted to be a cop. Then I watched 'The Wild Wild West,' and so I wanted to be in the Secret Service like James West. At some point I realized, 'That guy is not in the Secret Service. He's an actor.' That sounds like a good idea too. "

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" We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply. "

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Someone

" When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension. "

" I used to eat burgers and steak, and I would just be knocked out afterward; I had to give it up. "

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" I have a strong spiritual life. I can't say that I have faith that Jesus is my Savior, but I look at Jesus in the same way that I look at, you know, Mohammed. He was giving everyone the goods. So was Gandhi. "

" I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her. "

" Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories. "

" Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth. "

" On 'The Messenger,' just imagining playing the part of a soldier in that movie was kind of hard for me. And in 'Rampart,' the idea of playing a cop was even harder. It was hard to imagine myself as a cop. "

" I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling. "

" When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50. "

Woody Harrelson

Supposed

Environment

" The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil. "

" Well for six years during Cheers I couldn't get another job. "

" If I'm in Maui, I play soccer and tennis and go kite-surfing. I prefer doing a sport as opposed to going to a gym. I'm not big on gyms. When I did 'Rampart,' I lost 30 pounds because I felt it was better for the character. I worked out constantly, maybe twice a day, and minimized caloric intake. "

" And Garrison Keillor I think is a fascinating guy and really entertaining. "

" With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them. "

" When I'm in New York, I bike everywhere. I have a couple of bikes stored over at Ed Norton's. It's the only way to go. But in Hawaii, I drive. I have a little Volkswagen Bug, from the 'Drive it? Hug it?' phase. I run it on biodiesel. "

" Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me. "

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Violence

" We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid. "

" I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves. "

" I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets. "

" I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course. "

" If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there. "

" Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.' "

" I was a freshman in college in 1980, the year that Reagan was elected, and I went around badgering people to vote for him. "

" You have to focus on what you're passionate about. For me it's the forests and of course, because I'm concerned about the forests, I'm concerned about the way paper is made. "

" My main hope for myself is to be where I am. "

" I remember my first run-in with cops. It took me really getting to hang, well after that, with cops who were cool, and realizing, 'Okay, there are some bad ones.' I ran into some bad ones in Columbus, Ohio, but they're not all bad. "

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Cool

Remember

" Two boxes of Step Forward Paper saves one tree - that's a real stat. "

" Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a small thing to ask at this point. There is only four percent of old growth left. Ninety-six percent of it has been cut down. "

" Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining. "