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Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41.

Electing a black president was probably the only coup America could pull off.

If you had a cancer on your skin and had it burned it off, you'd wash it and clean it every day.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.

If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates.

The difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I'm capable.

After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.

When women talk about their feelings, they're not asking for solutions.

Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was.

You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

Violence isn't really my thing.

If you get yourself in a hole, you dig yourself out.

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

You don't want to make awards the reason you're doing things.

There's no greater purpose than service to others.

I've been called 'the voice actor.'

Acting is a bit of a substitute for life.

Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.

Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'

I accept the dying process. I would just like to be as healthy as I possibly can at each step and phase along the way.

Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility.

How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up.

I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew.

It's fun to change your body and find new things that your body does because of the weight.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

I never caught on to being a bully.

I'm glad I never went to war.

First make peace inside yourself.

I'm pretty much of a physical actor.

I'd like to do one European film a year.

Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.

I've never been all that comfortable in real life.

If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?

The thing about '48 Hrs.' that really isn't thought about much is that's the first film where the black and the white criticize each other.

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.

You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit.

When you start thinking about death more than sex, you know you're getting old.

People are not theirs thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them all kinds of sadness.

I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.

The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.

Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.

We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change.

With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling.

In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.

Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else.

It's easier to go somewhere if you've been there before.

I never fought much. It just wasn't my thing. I suppose I could, but I've never got into fights. Not a real one.

The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.

Peace, truthfully, is how you feel inside.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there.

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

In America, the old are neglected.

Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

American society is still puritanical.

Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you.

The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school.

I can't ad-lib, or not for long.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

Acting is always therapeutic.

All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.

Yes, you can get addicted to exercise.