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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'
- Formation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.
- Take
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wait and take on projects that I think can work.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.
- Beautiful Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.
- Nov 07, 2020
One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.
- Dice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cynic
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- Nov 07, 2020