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

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

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

" I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher! "

" I'm better than Olivier. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential. "

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

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

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

" Way, way, way back I played a little bit, but I am definitely not a golfer. You know, it just takes too much time anyway during the course of the day. "

" Well, I had a wonderful career. "

" Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.' "

" 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. "

" There was nothing wrong with shouting at God. "

" One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it. "

" Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life. "

" What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it. "

" I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long. "

" 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. "

" I had a wonderful career. "

" Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't shout, you can't play one of those guys. "

" 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. "