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Here's the thing - the accent is cool. It's like a girl with big breasts - they get your attention first.

I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.

I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.

You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.

I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture.

I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue.

Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them.

If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right.

You're just as good, and if you work harder, you can be better and you can be more than you think you can.

If I had a choice of having a woman in my arms or shooting a bad guy on a horse, I'd take the horse. It's a lot more fun

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?

I am not a cynic.

If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie.

I like four-hour movies.

If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment.

We all have to have our north star that we fix on and go to, but life is so much about the things that bump into you.

It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him [Castro] and watch him relive an experience he lived as a very young man.

I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up.

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.

You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too.

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'

I like American history.

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.

When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

I just tried to build on my failures.

One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.

Failure doesn't kill you ... it increases your desire to make something happen.

It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history.

I wait and take on projects that I think can work.

It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been.

You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians ... To me, that's sexy!

I deal with pressure. I have a tendency to probably be at my best under pressure.

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.

I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing.

I can't say I really see much difference between my son and daughters except that my girls will occasionally make me a sandwich and my son won't.

I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I don't read as much as I should. I just don't.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.

I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of "thumbs up, thumbs down."

When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.

I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.

I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.

I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.

I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

True movies will never be measured by how much they make - they'll be measured by how they make you feel.

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

I've always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.

I always thought the leading actor should be the best supporting actor, because you're the only person that can help every other actor on the set.

A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."

Audiences trust Westerns when you hit the right tone. I think they're not in vogue, but they will always be in vogue when you hit the right note.

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

It's nice to be wanted. That's a really good feeling. I'm not immune to it.

I think I just wanted to work when I finally came to Hollywood. That's what it was. I wanted to get a job, and then I wanted to get the second one.

The movies helped define how I should be as a person.

You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.

If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.

I haven't had a perfect life ... but I have had a perfectly good life!

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.

If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.

Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.

I will never forget what happened here tonight.people I went to school with will never forget.

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.