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Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

I don't tweet, I don't go on Facebook. I think there's too much information about all of us out there. I'm liking the idea of privacy more and more.

Without question, I wake every night five times.

I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.

If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.

There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq.

I've been in relationships where I've felt terribly alone. Just because you're with someone, it doesn't mean you're happy.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

I don't think that Hollywood will have much to do with changing politics. Hollywood usually reflects things.

Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride.

I'm a liberal. I'm confused when that became a bad word ...

I enjoy directing. I don't know whether it's improving or not, but it's certainly evolving in different directions.

Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

You can't legislate good taste.

The rehearsal process in general is about trusting one another.

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it's twenty-three.

I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.

I didn't enjoy working with Bill [Murray]. We fought a lot ... but I've let go of some of the anger and we seem to get along fine now.

I would vote for Johnny Depp. We could use a president that could swashbuckle.

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

Never get behind old people. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have left

I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.

America can't beat anyone anymore.

Whatever you do, don't wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.

People know everything about everybody now.

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

For me, the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries.

I don't mind what they say as long as they're not being mean.

If you're in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.

We're in a tight spot!

It's not ideal to have three films coming out at once

I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

I do happen to have a good life ... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this.

I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

It's fun to slap people around.

I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed.

I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.

I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they're on Twitter. It's just stupid.

The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

I resolve not to drink liquids before donning the Bat-suit.

I want to be the George Clooney of music.

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

I've always been an optimist.

My little animal secrets must remain my little animal secrets. How I do my nails, that is really my business.

There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage ... In the movies.

I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.

Bush, Sharon, Blair and Rice are names that history will damn.

One of my favorite films is 'Big Fish,' which I think is a masterpiece.

I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part,

I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.

I go on YouTube when somebody says to look something up.

Getting older is not something that you're not much concerned with.

It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the country in the best shape.

I'm really white trash.

The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.

I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.

Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.

I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears ... so now I have to move.

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

Oceans is about glamour. I can't go looking like a slob can I?

Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.

Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.

Art takes different forms ... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.

I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.

The directors are always sharp. It's true.

If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.

We're picking on people we can beat.

Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.

If you want to protect yourself as an actor, always work with good people

The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.

The only failure is not to try

If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!

The secret of directing is working with really good people.

The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

I'm not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing.

I don't like to share my personal life ... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.

It is not lost on me that I'm spending my honeymoon at Comic Con.

Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that.

Over the years, over the history of our country, liberals have stood on many of the right sides of the issues.