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" 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. "

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

" Art is competitive. "

" I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.' "

" 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. "

" Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne. "

" Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I like the good feeling movies. "

" I'm better than Olivier. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general. "

" 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. "

" I like to do things that I develop from the ground up. "

" Everybody likes to win. "

" I try not to look for messages in films. "

" 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. "

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