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" You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted. "

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" I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people. "

Do The Right Thing

" Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor. "

" I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of. "

" I like four-hour movies. "

" I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing. "

" I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me. "

" If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it. "

" I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived. "

" There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out. "

" Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know? "

" I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe. "

" I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue. "

" I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular? "

" I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics. "

" I wait and take on projects that I think can work. "

" We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there. "

" I like American history. "

American History

" If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day. "

" You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too. "

" In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected. "

" I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films. "

" I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check. "

" I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated. "

" I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?' "

" I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does. "

" I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched. "

" I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse. "

" Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen. "

" When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors. "

" When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble. "