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Over The Course Of My Career, I've Had The Great Fortune Of Working With Some Incredible Filmmakers Who Have Protected Me And Inspired Me And Taught Me What An Honor It Is To Work In Film.

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Over The Course Of My Career, I've Had The Great Fortune Of Working With Some Incredible Filmmakers Who Have Protected Me And Inspired Me And Taught Me What An Honor It Is To Work In Film.

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Charitable Work

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Most Of The Films I've Done Haven't Done Particularly Well. I'm Surprised I'm Continuing To Work.

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.

If We Dig Deep In Our History And Remember That We Are Not Descendants From Fearful People, We Proclaim Ourselves Indeed As We Are The Defenders Of Freedom Wherever It Continues To Exist In The World.

I'm Interested In Making Films That Ask Questions And Don't Particularly Provide Answers.

My Biggest Fear Is Doing The Same Things 10 Years From Now. That Would Be A Failure. It's Something You Have To Constantly Reassess, And Asking Yourself What You Are Going To Do Next Makes It A Good, Long Full Journey.

There Are Some Scenes That You Have To Lose In Order To Win Something At The End. A Good Director Will Keep Pointing You That Way, But It Is Also Your Job As An Actor To Understand That There Are Scenes That You Do, Particularly When You Are The Lead, Where Other People Get To Come In And Steal And You Have To Let Them. I Understand That But A Good Director Always Reminds You Where Those Moments Are.

I Think You Should Automatically Donate Your Organs Because That Would Turn The Balance Of Organ Donation In A Huge Way. I Would Donate Whatever Anybody Would Take, And I'd Probably Do The Cremation Bit.

I'm Not Going To Let Anyone Make It Seem Like Being Gay Is A Bad Thing.

Peace Is Not Just A Colored Ribbon. It's More Than A Wristband Or A T-shirt. It's Not Just A Donation Or A 5 K Race. It's Not Just A Folk Song, Or A White Dove. And Peace Is Certainly More Than A Celebrity Endorsement. Peace Is A Fulltime Job. It's Protecting Civilians, Overseeing Elections, And Disarming Ex-combatants. The Un Has Over 100,000 Peacekeepers On The Ground, In Places Others Can't Or Won't Go, Doing Things Others Can't Or Won't Do. Peace, Like War, Must Be Waged.

I Just Think There Are A Lot Of Celebrities Who Don't Feel That They Have A Voice. A Lot Of Actors Come From A Place Of Fear, And That's Just A General Statement About Actors. You're Terrified The Casting Director Won't Like You, You're Terrified The Producer Won't Like You, You're Terrified The Director Won't Like You, And On And On.

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.

If You Think Back , The Academy Was Doing A Better Job. Think About How Many More African Americans Were Nominated.we Need To Get Better At This. We Used To Be Better At It.

African American

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.

The Truth Of The Matter Is The Real Story Are The People Who Rise Above All Of This Incredible Cruelty. Otherwise That Cruelty Wins.

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

I've Been Lucky Enough To Do A Few Films That Will Last Longer Than An Opening Weekend And Those Films Are The Ones I'm Proud Of.

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.

As A Director, I Do Very Few Takes, Because I Feel Like You Hire The Right Actor And They'll Do The Job Right. And The Directors That I've Worked With And Had The Best Luck With - Jason And [ Steven] Soderbergh And The Coen Brothers - All Have Been That Kind Of Director.

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.

I'm Not Quite Sure What The Santicity Of Marriage Is.

Any Topical Subject, If It's Hollywood, Will Be A Couple Of Years Later Because You've Got To Write It, Produce It And Distribute It, So Automatically You're Never Going To Be Right On The Cutting Edge Of Stories.

There's Ten Of Us, We've Been Best Friends For Thirty Years. Ten Guys. And Their Wives, And Their Kids, Are All Family Now. I'm Not Big On Keeping Up On The Phone, None Of Us Are. Some Guys I Won't Talk To For Two Months And Then You Pick Up The Phone And Hear, "so, Anyway." There's No Guilt Or Where Have You Been? Or What's Been Going On? Or Why Haven't We Talked? There's An Ease To It.

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!

Growing Old On Screen Is Not For The Faint Of Heart.

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.

Look, It's Very Easy To Sit Here Right Now With Some Films In The Bank That I Like And Think I Have A Shot And Feel Pretty Cocky. But, You Know, Three Years From Now, I Could Very Easily Be Saying, 'paper Or Plastic?'

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Without Question, I Wake Every Night Five Times.

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

Run For Office? No. I've Slept With Too Many Women, I've Done Too Many Drugs, And I've Been To Too Many Parties.

I'm Not Smart Enough And I Don't Know Enough About What's Going On.

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I Don't Like To Share My Personal Life... It Wouldn't Be Personal If I Shared It.

I Didn't Have Time. I Was Too Busy Breaking Up Tom Cruise And Nicole Kidman's Marriage. (on Rumours He Was Responsible For Julia Roberts And Benjamin Bratt's Break-up)

I've Been Left For Someone...all Those Things...it Was Sometimes A Surprise, And Sometimes You Saw T Coming. The Most Painful Was When I Kept Trying To Get Someone Back. But We All Make Dumb Mistakes.

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.

As Time Goes On And You Become More Comfortable In Your Career Path, And Things Are Starting To Make Sense, And It's Not Just About Work, You Find That You're Able To Focus On Other Things And Other People.

We Must Not Confuse Dissent With Disloyalty. We Must Not Walk In Fear Of One Another. We Must Not Be Driven By Fear Into An Age Of Unreason.

I Had A Tesla. I Was One Of The First Cats With A Tesla. But I'm Telling You, I've Been On The Side Of The Road A While In That Thing.

I Was Very Lucky To Get Well Known Much Later In Life. You Need To Have Flopped Quite A Few Times To Get A Sense Of How Little Any Of It Has To Do With You.

Life’s Better With Company. Everybody Needs A Co-pilot.

Things Hurt Me Now. My Knees Hurt, My Back Hurts. But Your Head Still Thinks It's Twenty-three.

I Don't Go On That Many Dates, Because The Truth Is, Anytime You Go Out In Public With A Girl When You're Well-known, There Are Pictures Of You Everywhere, And It's Like You're A Thing.

I'm Really White Trash.

I Enjoy Going On Motorcycle Trips And Stopping In Small Towns And Enjoying Drinks With The Locals.

Anytime There's An Actual Grassroots Movement That Isn't Funded By People Trying To Create A Grassroots Movement, I Find That Interesting.

America Can't Beat Anyone Anymore.

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.

Even The Idea Of A Fart Makes Me Laugh. Saying The Word 'fart' Makes Me Laugh. I Have Ifart On My Phone. I Have Remote Whoopee Cushions. Farts. To Me, There's Nothing Funnier.

You Have To Remember That In The Microcosm Of Cincinnati, Ohio, Through Northern Kentucky, My Father Was A Big Star, Still Is. So That Made My Sister And Me Really Visible. Everybody Knew Us, Talked About Us.

Cincinnati Ohio

The Best Lesson My Mom Taught Me Was How To Be Scrappy.

There's No Connection Between Al-qaeda And Iraq.

I'm A Liberal. I'm Confused When That Became A Bad Word...

I Did A Lot Of Terrible Tv Shows And Was Really Terrible In Them, And I've Done Terrible Films I Was Terrible In, But Nobody Really Noticed.

If You’re In The Room, You've Grabbed The Brass Ring. You Are All Winners.

You Never Really Learn Much From Hearing Yourself Talk.

I Probably Wouldn't Be A Good Spokesman For An Electric Car, Because I'll Still Get On A Private Jet, And One Flight On A Private Jet Undoes All My Electric-car Good Deeds.

I Just Found Out About 10 Days Ago That I Must Live 300 Or 400 Yards From Britney Spears... So Now I Have To Move.

Directing Is Much More Satisfying To Me Than Acting.

You Have Only A Short Period Of Time In Your Life To Make Your Mark, And I'm There Now.

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