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" When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win. "

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" Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times. "

" The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them. "

" Without question, I wake every night five times. "

" I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches. "

" I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on. "

" My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco. "

" If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie! "

" I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they're on Twitter. It's just stupid. "

" You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers. "

" Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that. "

" Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties. "

" It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period. "

" You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk. "

" I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it. "

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" The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny. "

" I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?' "

" I grew up in a family of storytellers, but Google has destroyed us because you can fact-check everything. We'd always like the stories to be a little better than they were. "

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" The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim. "

" I think one of the major misconceptions about me is that I live my life the way people think I lead my life, with hot and cold drinks running everywhere and a party all the time. They think of my life in terms of certain excesses that don't really exist. Things are actually fairly simple. "

" My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly as good as my father. I wasn't as quick or as smart as my old man, and I realized it would be a long time before I was ever going to be, and I decided to do something else. "

" I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it. "

" I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency. "

" An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing. "

" I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general. "

" It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the country in the best shape. "

" I'd think, 'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person. "

" We're picking on people we can beat. "