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Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.
You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.
If you feel like you've got something to offer you should do it while the iron's hot.
Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.
I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.
I've done a few special effects movies in my life, so I've gotten that out of my system.
The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.
You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.
To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from.
Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.
You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.
Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.
Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
I think great movies have to have some great moments in them to bring them up to that level.
I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.
I've never been on a movie where they play five-dollar Friday. I must not be very observant.
At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.
The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.
I'm past doing one chin-up more than I did the day before. I just kind of do what I feel like.
Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.
That's one of the actor's secrets: With everything you do, learn something new about yourself.
It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life.
The reason I still work at this stage of life is because I enjoy learning something new each day.
Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view.
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.
First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby... I guarantee you.
Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.
I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.
I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things.
I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.
I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.
When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.
I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.
I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy.
People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.
Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.
I like working. That's when I'm feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.
I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.