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When I'm pushed, I shove.
I'm an actor; I hire out.
I never finished the ninth grade.
You can never have too many friends.
I'm a Methodist, but not as an actor.
Cause my wife gets up and goes shopping.
I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.
Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacher
I'm working out every day. I'm in very good shape.
I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.
I felt like my bubble gum card collection had come to life.
I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes.
I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.
I've had to work hard at that easy-going manner you see on screen.
The greatest challenge Internet users face is information overload.
Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.
I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.
There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.
I've done a lot of casual work, and acting is a lot easier than laying carpets.
I don't like the crowds, I don't like to get out of the house if I don't have to.
In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California.
My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it.
I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.
You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.
We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.
There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.
People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.
With the exception of my wife and children, there's nothing I value more than my Oklahoma heritage.
Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.
The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.
Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.
When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.
I'm a 'bleeding-heart liberal,' one of those card-carrying Democrats that Rush Limbaugh thinks is a communist. And I'm proud of it.
I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.
What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.
The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.
I don't have any theories about acting, and I don't think about how to do it, except that an actor shouldn't take himself too seriously, and shouldn't try to make acting something it isn't.
I smoked marijuana for 50 yearsIt opened my mind to a lot of things, and now its active ingredient, THC, relaxes me and eases my arthritis pain. I've concluded that marijuana should be legal
I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way.
When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.
Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.
I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe, in that order.
I did a little bit of cocaine in the Eighties, courtesy of John Belushi, but fortunately I didn’t like it. But I smoked marijuana for 50 years and I don’t know where I’d be without it. It opened my mind and now it eases my arthritis. After decades of research I’ve concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal.
You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false; it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last. People want something real and natural, and if they catch you acting, you're dead. It has to look real. In order to look real, it has to be real, and I've always thought of the characters I've played as real people.
There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California. Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president. I was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild when he was its president. My duties consisted of attending meetings and voting. The only thing I remember is that Ronnie never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That's no way to run a union, let along a state or a country.