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I'm nothing if not honest.
Wake up and live. It's a fast world out there.
I think I have the finest body of work of any American actor.
Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.
Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.
Tabouli is the best salad, but still, you don't win friends with salad
You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.
In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.
People who commit adultery must die. Everyone knows that. Any movie tells you that!
Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.
By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.
I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.
Politics has become beyond acceptable when it comes to humanity. People are just frozen in falsehood.
I believe that a nation that allows music to be expendable is in danger of becoming expendable itself.
Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.
I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.'
The bad guy always gets the best scene and the best lines in the film, and they usually get the most days off.
The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States.
I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.
It's fun to see the light in someone's eyes. It's fun to give your own eccentric experience and have it land. That's fun.
Jaws, first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it's a great movie.
Television is hypnotic, and it hides among the furniture of your living room. It doesn't reveal itself, but it distorts everything.
'Jaws,' first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it's a great movie.
There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.
In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.
To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country... if we don't, someone else will run our country.
My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.
Well, I can't (sing or dance). Actually, I sing like a seal and dance like your Uncle Leo at that wedding where he got up and went 'ya, ya, ya'.
It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.
Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.
It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.
You've got to protect the system of secular faith in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and Enlightenment values. That way, you can protect all religions.
I took the part in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' because no one had ever asked me to play 'a life' before. I get to age through 30 years. The idea really challenged me.
Isn't it funny that God takes you and puts you through the unendurable, and then, at the moment you have just begun to understand it and have some wisdom, it ends?
John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high.
I have withdrawn from partisan politics. I am a constitutionalist who believes that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights must be central and the parties must be peripheral.
We didn't get along, me and Bill Murray. But I've got to give it to him: I don't like him, but he makes me laugh even now. I'm also jealous that he's a better golfer than I am.
I think I'm turning into a libertarian. I'm not part of the gaggle of Hollywood liberals. I gaggle for no one, and I'm not a liberal. I'm libo-conservo-rado-middle-of-the-roado.
I never had a role that I set out for. I always wanted to have a body of work that I'm proud of. Save for two projects, which will never pass my lips, I'm happy with what I've done.
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.
We, all of us, are awakening to the reality that how men have behaved toward women for eons is not OK. The rules are changing invisibly underneath our feet. I am playing catch up. Maybe we all are.
The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.
I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky.
When you work in front of the people, either in a film or in television, the people who are in the room with you are not watching you work, they're working so you'd have to light a fire to get them to watch what you were doing.
Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.
I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.
I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.
Trump is an intemperate, mean-spirited, lying bully. If a man like that asked you for permission to marry your daughter, what would your answer be? If it's no, I think it's obvious we shouldn't give him the most powerful office on the face of the Earth.
I love the ideals of my country. But I hate that we've been so denied any real knowledge of the world and don't have the education to think clearly, so we vote against our economic interest and believe in our most shallow first thoughts of fear and hatred.