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I am not a cynic.
I like American history.
I am a really writer-oriented actor.
I just tried to build on my failures.
It's nice to be wanted in almost any capacity.
I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue.
I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.
I wait and take on projects that I think can work.
I don't like definitions. I like four-hour movies.
I like being around people that mean what they say.
I've never had that fear of going against the grain.
The movies helped define how I should be as a person.
I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.
Life's better when it's fun. Boy, that's deep, isn't it?
I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.
I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.
If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.
Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.
I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.
I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing.
Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?
Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.
A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.
I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
I've always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.
Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.
I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.
I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.
I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.
Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.
There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.
It's nice to be wanted. That's a really good feeling. I'm not immune to it.
I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up.
I like American history, so I was aware of the participants and a lot of it.
If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.
If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie.
Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them.
Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.
I don't take much stock in other people's opinions if I think something's good.
You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too.
I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.
I deal with pressure. I have a tendency to probably be at my best under pressure.
You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.
Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?
Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.
My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world.
When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.
When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.