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

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" There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial. "

" When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it? "

" Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically? "

" If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get. "

" If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures. "

" I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair. "

" I'm a mentor to anybody who's interested. "

" They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks. "

" It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals. "

" Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict. "

" I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal. "

" If you think it's going to rain, it will. "

" I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time. "

" My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble. "

" I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote. "

" It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character. "

" When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me. "

" I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War. "

" There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can. "

" 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 knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him. "

" 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 just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go. "

" You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you. "

" When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet. "

" 'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out. "

" I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela. "

" It would be great to be 105 and still making films. "

" If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him. "