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I Think There Are A Lot Of Great Journalists Out There. I Don't Find Much Fault In The Journalist In General; I Think Everybody Would Like To Break A Good Story.

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I Think There Are A Lot Of Great Journalists Out There. I Don't Find Much Fault In The Journalist In General; I Think Everybody Would Like To Break A Good Story.

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Stage Actors Look Down On Movie Actors, Movie Actors Look Down On Tv Actors, And Tv Actors Look Down On... Mass Murderers.

Politicians Have A Tremendous Amount Of Ego To Be Able To Do It. It's Very Hard When The Product Your Selling To An Entire Country Is Yourself And You're Just Selling The Hell Out Of It All The Time.

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I Love My Grey Hair And Wrinkles. I Love The Fact That My Face Has More Of An Edge And More Character Than It Did When I Was In My 20s And 30s. No Botox For Me.

I Had To Stop Going To Auditions Thinking, 'oh, I Hope They Like Me.' I Had To Go In Thinking I Was The Answer To Their Problem.

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My Father Taught Me About Having Principles And How To Treat People With Respect. My Aunt Also Taught Me How To Keep A Perspective On Everything That Happens To You. So You Learn To Be Humble And Not Take Your Success For Granted.

I Bought A Painting In Madrid On My First Trip There Too And A Lot Of People Say, 'well It's Not The Greatest Painting' And I Say, 'it Is To Me.' Ok, You Can Look At A Beautiful Painting And Say, 'that's Beautiful' But To Me, It Feels Warmer To Fill My Home With Pictures Of Friends And Family And Paintings Of Places I've Gone. That's What I Want To Come Home To.

I'm A Method Actor. I Spent Years Training For The Drinking And Carousing I Had To Do In This Film.

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I Don't Believe In Happy Endings, But I Do Believe In Happy Travels, Because Ultimately, You Die At A Very Young Age, Or You Live Long Enough To Watch Your Friends Die. It's A Mean Thing, Life.

We're In A Strange State In Our World Where We Sort Of Have That Belief - And I Have It Too - That If It's Written Down There's Got To Be Some Truth In It. We Haven't Quite Got To The Spot Where You Go: "well, It Doesn't Necessarily Mean It's True." It Could Actually Be Completely Made Up And Made To Look Very Nice. So, We Have To Get To The Point Where Scandal And Those Kinds Of Things Are Less And Less Important Because Otherwise We Won't Have Anyone Willing To Run As Politicians.

America Can't Beat Anyone Anymore.

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Too Much Information

I've Been Working With Pat Robertson On Africa Debt-relief, And We Disagree On Virtually Everything Except Certain Very Specific, Inalienable Rights, And The Truth Is That Morality And Patriotism Come In All Shapes And Sizes.

I Was Watching 'up In The Air' And I Thought, 'jesus, Who's The Old Gray-haired Guy?' And It Was Me. I Never Wear Makeup For Movies And Now It's Starting To Show.

When You See Hitler Burning Paintings By Salvador Dali And Picasso He's Telling You That This Time Period And These Men And This Culture Didn't Exist, And I've Seen That Happen In Other Countries, Sudan For Instance, It's Not Enough To Kill Them You Have To Destroy All Of Their Markings That They Left That Was Their History.

After Doing One Fine Day And Playing A Pediatrician On Er, I'll Never Have Kids. I'm Going To Have A Vasectomy.

I've Been My Most Happy And My Most Unhappy In Relationships. I Have Family And Friends And People I Care Very Much About. I've Got A Really, Really, Really Good Life.

Family And Friends

I'm The Flavor Of The Month.

Flavor Of The Month

The Only Failure Is Not To Try.

If I Had Been With All The Women That I Was Said To Have Been With, I Wouldn't Have Had The Time To Shoot A Single Movie!

Love Trumps Hate. Courage Loves Fear. Right Always Trumps Wrong.

The Simple Truth Is That Everyone Has An Opinion, Everyone Has The Right To Voice It, And They Should If They Want To.

It Is A Question In That Case Of Breaking Up One Piece Of Art, And Whether That Piece Of Art Can Be As Best As Possible Put Back Together. So It's An Argument To Say, Maybe That's One Of Those Instances, Like The Bust Of Nefertiti, I Think That Should Be Given Back [egyptian Piece Currently In Neues Museum In Berlin]. It's One Of Those Pieces You Look At And Think That Would Probably Be The Right Thing To Do.

I'm Not Completely Against Khakis. It's Just The Level That You Have To Wear Them. The Higher You Pull Them, Then More Excruciating It Is.

At The Core Of Every Religion Is The Belief That We Care For Everyone....it's Not Too Late To Help A Neighbor In Need And To Do It With The Swiftness, Expertise, Generosity And Love That Resides In The Best Of Who We Are.

I Grew Up In The World Of Bad Television, On My Dad's Sets And Then As A Young Schmuck On Dating Shows And So On.

An Acting Career Usually Has About A Shelf Life Of Ten Years Before People Get Sick Of Seeing You. It's A Good Thing To Have A Job To Fall Back On And I Really Do Enjoy Directing.

Even Other Movies I Wasn't Involved With, I'd Watch Them Edit 'cause I Really Enjoy Watching Them Go Through Their Process. It's A Very Economical, Educational Process.

Hollywood Still Makes Things. We Still Export A Couple Billion Dollars' Worth Of Product Overseas. Original, New Product. Some People Might Not Agree That It's Original Or New, But Basically It Is.

The Truth Is My Development I Hope Is The Same Way As Everything, Which Is, I Succeed Some, I Fail Some, And I Keep Slugging Away At It. I Really Enjoy It. It's Fun.

My Life Isn't Focused On Results. My Life Is Really Focused On The Process Of Doing All The Things I'm Doing, From Work To Relationships To Friendships To Charitable Work.

Charitable Work

Hosting Is Work. It Means You Don't Get To Go Up To Your Room And Disappear And Take A Nap. Like Everybody Else Does After Lunch. I'm Talking About Hosting, Not Hosting A Dinner Party, But Hosting People Staying In Your Home.

The Best Advice I Got From My Aunt, The Great Singer Rosemary Clooney, And From My Dad, Who Was A Game Show Host And News Anchor, Was: Don't Wake Up At Seventy Years Old Sighing Over What You Should Have Tried. Just Do It, Be Willing To Fail, And At Least You Gave It A Shot. That's Echoed For Me All Through The Last Few Years.

I Enjoy Living In A Nice House And Having A Nice Life. So I Do Two Or Three Commercials Overseas A Year To Sort Of Fill In, Because They Pay Pretty Well.

Directing Is Much More Satisfying To Me Than Acting.

What You Learn After You Are 40 Is That It Is Just About Plugging Up Holes In The Boat. You Just Hope You Have Enough Corks To Plug Enough Of The Holes.

My Little Animal Secrets Must Remain My Little Animal Secrets. How I Do My Nails, That Is Really My Business.

I Think The Reason Why A Lot Of Young People Are Such Screw Ups... Is Oftentimes They Didn't Have The Luxury I Had Of Forming Important Relationships And Opinions And Life Experiences Before Having Success.

Important Relationships

If You Try Desperately To Hang On To Something That Used To Be A Success For You, It's Going To Go Away. You Have To Change.

I've Worked With Woody Allen Twice And He Was Like, "whatever You Want To Change, It's Up To You. If You Want To Change The Words, Make Them Your Own."

It Is Not Lost On Me That I'm Spending My Honeymoon At Comic Con.

The Patriot Act Is Certainly A Concern; All Of Those Things Are Dangerous. I Think More Important Than Me Preaching Is That We As A Nation Have To Have The Debate. I Don't Know What The Answers Are. I Just Know That If The Idea Is To Say Talking About It Makes You Unpatriotic, I've Got To Call Your Bluff On That.

If You Want To Protect Yourself As An Actor, Always Work With Good People

There's A Coffin In The Back Of The Church As The Wedding Is Going On ... Look, I'm A Romantic. I Like Marriage...in The Movies.

It's Possible For Me To Make A Bad Movie Out Of A Good Script, But I Can't Make A Good Movie From A Bad Script.

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