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

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" I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character. "

" 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. "

" Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. "

" 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. "

" The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there. "

" I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife. "

" There was nothing wrong with shouting at God. "

" 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. "

" As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while. "

" I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier. "

" I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day. "

" I'm getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I've ever played in my life, in the most unique project. "

" Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think? "

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

" High Noon is a pretty corny movie. "

" You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich. "

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

" Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review. "

" You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie. "

" 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. "

" 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

" Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie. "

" Everybody likes to win. "

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

" Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie. "

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

" 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. "

" It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game. "

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

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