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Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I love working in Texas anywhere.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

But I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I've ever played in my life, in the most unique project.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

I'd like to direct again, but that's really hard to get something and raise the money. It's difficult to find just the right thing.

Good Parts
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Nov 07, 2020

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

Fortunate
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Nov 07, 2020

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.'

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

Bad
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Nov 07, 2020

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.

Grow
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Nov 07, 2020

If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.

More
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Nov 07, 2020

A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.

Competitive
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Nov 07, 2020

Art is competitive.

Nov 07, 2020

I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife.

New
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Nov 07, 2020

Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.

Had
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Nov 07, 2020

I had a wonderful career.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.

Make
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Nov 07, 2020

Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

Being
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Nov 07, 2020

Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

Nov 07, 2020

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

Feeling
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Nov 07, 2020

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

Culture
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Nov 07, 2020

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

Bible
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Nov 07, 2020

We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

Make
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Nov 07, 2020

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

See
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Nov 07, 2020

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

Everything
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Nov 07, 2020

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Day
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Nov 07, 2020

To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.

Nothing
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Nov 07, 2020

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

Coppola
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Nov 07, 2020

The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money.

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

Nov 07, 2020

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

Been
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Nov 07, 2020

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

Little Things
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Nov 07, 2020

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

America
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Nov 07, 2020

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

Business
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Nov 07, 2020

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

Mind
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Nov 07, 2020

I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.

Crime
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Nov 07, 2020

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.

Hill
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country.

More
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Nov 07, 2020

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

Beginning
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Nov 07, 2020

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

Movie
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Nov 07, 2020

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

God
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Nov 07, 2020

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

Around my own friends, I like to mess around.

John Wayne
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Nov 07, 2020

Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

Nov 07, 2020

I'm better than Olivier.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

Likes
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Nov 07, 2020

Everybody likes to win.

Character
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Nov 07, 2020

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

Knew
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Nov 07, 2020

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.

Approximate
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Nov 07, 2020

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

Nov 07, 2020

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

I try not to look for messages in films.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

I like the good feeling movies.

America
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Nov 07, 2020

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!

Nov 07, 2020

Well, I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife.

Legacy
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Nov 07, 2020

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

Certain Things
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Nov 07, 2020

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

Home
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Nov 07, 2020

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result.

Grow
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Nov 07, 2020

I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

New
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Nov 07, 2020

You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that.

Had
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Nov 07, 2020

Well, I had a wonderful career.

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

Living
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Nov 07, 2020

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

Nov 07, 2020

Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't shout, you can't play one of those guys.

Character
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Nov 07, 2020

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

Way, way, way back I played a little bit, but I am definitely not a golfer. You know, it just takes too much time anyway during the course of the day.

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