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If We Don't Save The Oceans, If We Don't Do Something About What We're Doing To The Oceans, As Well As The Planet At Large, We're Going To Be Really Sorry.

I Believe In Helping The Planet Survive, And That Includes Reaching Out To Help Some Of The Disappearing Creatures Whose Habitats We're Destroying. It's Up To Us To Somehow Reverse That Trend. I Don't Know How We'll Achieve It, But We Need To.

I Never Think About Awards Or Anything Like That When I Do A Job. I Was First Named A Best Actor When I Was 12 Years Old And It Doesn't Really Mean Anything When You Get Down To It, Because There Is No Best. I Don't Get All That Involved. My Chest Puffs Up As Much As I Can Puff It Up But I Am Not Trying To Be Better Than The Person I Am Acting With. I Am Trying To Be At Least As Good. That's How It Works.

You're Not Going To Be Able To Look Like Anyone Else, No Matter How Hard You Try, Unless You're A Mimic, Then You're Not Acting, You're Just Mimicking. You Can't Go On Being John Wayne, That's John Wayne. So You're Not Going To Steal From John Wayne. I'm Not Going To Steal From John Wayne And You're Not Going To Come Back And Say 'didn't You Get That From The Circus?' You Know. But He Is One Of Those People Who Instructs Me, Whom I Look Up To - Whom I Think Is One Of The Masters Of His Craft That I Am So Enamoured Of.

I Don't Want A Black History Month. Black History Is American History.

I Hate The Word Homophobia. It's Not A Phobia. You Are Not Scared. You Are An Asshole.

The Best Way To Guarantee A Loss Is To Quit.

My Earrings Are Worth Just Enough To Buy Me A Coffin If I Die In A Strange Place. That Was The Reason Why Sailors Used To Wear Them.

And Some Places You Been Before Are So Great That You Don't Ever Mind Going Back. Some Places You Been Before You Don't Ever Want To Go Back, You Know, Like Montreal In The Winter.

That's Really Just The Worst Part Of Life Really, You Get Bracketed Somewhere And The Next Thing You Know People Are Saying, 'no. No. That's Not The Type. Get Me So And So.' I'm Not A Type. I'm An Actor.

I Always Knew That Someone Was Going To Come At Me With A Script To Play God. It's Just One Of Those Things, The Way Your Career Is Unfolding And All The Talk About Gravitas Etc Etc, So I Had A Strong Feeling That Someone Was Going To Offer Me The Part Of God. I Was Totally Prepared To Say, 'thanks But No Thanks,' Unless It Was A Comedy.

The Odds Are Lousy That I Actually Said Something Attributed To Me.

I'm Easy Going For The Most Part But Sometimes In The Morning If I Didn't Sleep Well I Can Be Kind Of Grumpy. But My Grumpiness Doesn't Have That Much To Do With My Dissatisfaction With My Station In Life.

A Scientist Sounds Like A Scientist Because The Things That Come Out Of Their Mouth Don't Stumble, That's All. If They [said], "and The, Um, A Microwave, Uh," You Know, Then You Don't Sound Right, But If You Can Just Get It Out Without Stumbling Then You're Going To Sound Fine.

I Would Never Complain That Hollywood Is Racist When I'm One Of The People Touted As A Welcome Entity There.

Still, It Can Be More Effective To Accomplish What You Need To Accomplish With The Minimum Effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He Doesn't Appear To Be Doing Anything. He Is So Still That You Can't See Him Working, But You Are Drawn Into His Character Through His Very Stillness.

Is There A Movie I Think I Should Have Won The Oscar For? Yeah. All Of Them.

One Day Very Soon, We'll Be Asked: What Did We Do. And We Will Say: We Did Everything We Could... We Have To... Because If We Don't There Won't Be Anyone Left To Ask. We Have Never Faced A Crisis This Big, That We Have Never Had Better Ideas To Solve. This Is Our Only Home. We Can Choose Today To Make A World Of Difference.

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I Like Working With Directors Because I'm Really Opinionated About What Things Work And May Not Work, What Audiences Like And May Not Like, (not Really) But I Do Have Opinions About Things. I Like To Be Able To Say Them And Then Have Them Acted On. The Director Who Responds To Me Like That, Always Gets My Appreciation. I Do Appreciate It. What I Find Is The Best Directors, No Matter What Kind Of Name They Have, Are Like That.

I Feel Fine, I Don't Care Who The Director Is. All You Have To Do Is Know What Your Doing - All Of Us - Everybody In The Business - That's All You Ask Anyone - You Know Your Job, I Know Mine, Let's Go Do It.

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Donald Trump Is The Honey Boo Boo Of Rich People.

I Think That We Did A Really Good Thing When We Elected Barack Obama. I Read His Books. He Is Absolutely And Totally Qualified For The Job. He's Proven Himself To Be Not Only Qualified For The Job, But Very Good At It. The Things That He's Managed To Get Accomplished In The Face Of So Much Push-back Is Amazing, And I Think - This Is Morgan Freeman's Personal Thought - We're Going To Be In A Lot Of Trouble If We Don't Reelect Him, Because The People On The Other Side Of The Fence Scare Me.

Challenge Yourself; It’s The Only Path Which Leads To Growth.

The First Thing That Always Pops Into My Head Regarding Our President, Is That All Of The People Who Are Setting Up This Barrier For Him... They Just Conveniently Forget That Barack Had A Mama, And She Was White - Very White; American, Kansas, Middle Of America. There Is No Argument About Who He Is, Or What He Is. America's First Black President Hasn't Arisen Yet. He's Not America's First Black President. He's America's First Mixed-race President.

I Gravitate Towards Gravitas.

Flip On The News And Watch How We Treat The Batman Theater Shooter And The Oregon Mall Shooter Like Celebrities. Dylan Klebold And Eric Harris Are Household Names, But Do You Know The Name Of A Single ‘victim’ Of Columbine?

I Think You Take A Job, You Owe It As Much Passion As The Job Itself Demands. And Most Jobs Demand That You Be Totally Committed.

I'm A Firm Believer That Things Happen As They Should. The Universe Unfolds Just As It's Supposed To.

If You're Comfortable On A Horse, You're Comfortable On A Horse. It's Like Being On A Motorbike.

I Believe It Doesn't Really Matter Where You Work As Long As You Work. Keep Sharpening Your Teeth.

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Freeman Denied The Claim That He Was A “man Of God”, Saying That “the Question Of Faith Is Whatever You Actually Believe Is. We Take A Lot Of What We're Talking About In Science On Faith; We Posit A Theory, And Until It's Dis-proven We Have Faith That It's True. If The Mathematics Work Out, Then It's True, Until It's Proven To Be Untrue.

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You Don't Know How Much You Appreciate Your Privacy Until You Don't Have It.

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If Your Life Turns Out To Be Good And You Have A Tremendous Amount Of Luck In Your Life, It's A Good Thing To Turn Around And Make It Work For Others.

If You Dream You've Got To Dream That It's Going To Happen. Remember That. If You Dream You Have To Imagine That It Will Actually Happen.

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I'm Always Trying New Things And Learning New Things. If There Isn't Anything More You Can Learn - Go Off And Die.

Trying New Things

Learning New Things

As The Mask Of Deception Falls Off The Face Of Humanity Unveiling The Grim Reality Of Duality In Which Everyone Is A Casualty, No One Will Be Exempt Truth Has Many Shades It's Not A Matter Of Black And White, But Gray Although Many, We Are One, So In The Final Analysis Could It Be That We Are Fighting A War That Can't Be Won?

As You Grow In This Business, You Learn How To Do More With Less.

Stage Is Really Hard Work. You've Got To Do It Every Night. Not Like Doing It Once And Walking Away.

It Seems To Me That I Never Grow Unless I'm Actually Working With Other Actors Who Have Shed Whatever Shell It Is That Keeps Them Insulated From Each Other.

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Our Situation, With Global Warming And Air Quality And All Of That, Has Gotten To Be Catastrophic.

Your Job Is Always The Same If It's A Juggernaut Or If It's Just One Of These Little Jewels Of A Film That's Gonna Wind Up At The Laemmle Or Something, So Your Job Doesn't Change Whatsoever... Give It Your Best Shot.

It Can Have An Enormous Effect Because Big Budget Movies Can Have Big Budget Perks, And Small Budget Movies Have No Perks, But What Is The Driving Force, Of Course, Is The Script, And Your Part In It.

I Understand That When Gary Oldman Was In That Suit [batman], Sweat Would Just Drip Off Of Him Where They Had To Have Holes In The Gloves Or Something.

There Is No Such Thing As Homophobia. It Is Not A Fear. It Is You Being An Asshole.

That Is A Big Turn-on For Me, A Director Who Knows What He's Doing And What He Wants, And Knows When He's Gotten What He Wants.

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Insanity Is Being Shit On, Beat Down, Coasting Through Life In A Miserable Existence When You Have A Caged Lion Locked Inside And A Key To Release It.

Costume Is Always An Asset. Normal Costume You Have A Lot To Say About - If You're Wearing Suits Or Ties, And What Color You Want, And How It's Going To Be Cut, And Stuff Like That, And Whether Or Not You're Going To Wear A Hat, And Blah, Blah, Blah. But, When You're Wearing A Special Costume, And Of Course, Costume Is Probably The Second Ingredient In Character, Script Being First, I Always Find That The Costume Does A Lot To Cement Your Character, To Put It Firmly In Mind.

They're Talking About Kids Who Have Grand Mal Seizures, And They've Discovered That Marijuana Eases That Down To Where These Children Can Have A Life. That Right There, To Me, Says, 'legalize It Across The Board!'

I Was Lucky In That When The Opportunity Came, I Was Prepared To Meet It.

The Reason Actors, Artists, Writers Have Agents Is Because We'll Do It For Nothing. That's A Basic Fact - You Gotta Do It.

Your Best Posture Is Your Next Posture.

Don't Be Different Just For Different's Sake. If You See It Differently, Function That Way. Follow Your Own Muse, Always.

Forgiveness Liberates The Soul, It Removes Fear.

Part Of Acting Is Having The Security To Turn Yourself Loose And Let Yourself Go In Order To Reach Whatever Depths A Character Has. If Your Guts Aren't Hanging Out There, You Don't Offer Anything.

So If I Believe In God, And I Do, It's Because I Think I'm God.

I Like The Character Roles. Somewhere Back There I Really Came To The Conclusion In My Mind That The Difference Between Acting And Stardom Was Major. And That If You Become A Star, People Are Going To Go To See You. If You Remain An Actor, They're Going To Go And See The Story You're In.

There's No Mystery To It. Nothing More Complicated Than Learning Lines And Putting On A Costume.

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Not Only Do I Have To Live, Right, I Have To Get Some Cash For My Troubles - It's A Scary Thing, And People Need To Start To Think About The Messages That They Send In The Movies.

I Am Going To Stop Calling You A White Man And I'm Going To Ask You To Stop Calling Me A Black Man.

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Changing The World

I Think The Educational Value Is What Comes First. I've Always Thought That The Most Effective Tools We Have For Disseminating Information, I.e. Education, Is Television And Film.

I Don't Have Anybody Telling Me What To Say. I Have People Who Would Suggest, Maybe, That I Shouldn't Do This, That Or The Other, But That's Strictly Up To Me.

I Do Know There Are A Lot Of People Who Seem To Be In My Corner, And That's, Of Course, Wonderful. I'm Really More Interested In The Nomination Than In The Award, Because I Think The Nomination Just Puts You Within A Group Of Outstanding Actors.

I Had Gone To School To Work On Technique And Found It Wasn't Something That Was Really Worthwhile To Me, Although It Probably Was.

Acting Means Living, It's All I Do And All I'm Good At. If I Weren't Getting Paid Well, I Would Still Be Acting In A Small Troupe Somewhere.

Rob [reiner] Is A Teddy Bear. He's Hell Delicious. He's A Really Good Director. He's A Great Soul. In The Movie Business, I Would Call Him A Movie Mom. The Only Person I Hold In Equal Esteem Is Clint Eastwood. Now I Have Worked With A Lot Of Terrific Directors, And I Don't Mean To Be Putting Any Of Them Below Their Own Station, But These Two, I Relish Working With Them.

The Main Thing About Awards In Movies Is That They Can Serve As An Economic Surge For The Film. If You're Movie Gets Nominated For Any Award It Does It A Big Favour. People Might Go And See It Again... They Won't Give Up On It.

I Like Producing But Acting Is The Quintessential Me, And I'm Probably Better At That Than I Am At Anything. My Heart Has Always Been In The Movies.

If You Want To See A Miracle, Be The Miracle

Hey, If I Don't Have A Job, I Don't Know Why I Bother To Get Up. Any Time The Phone Rings, I'm Ready To Go. What Else Am I Going To Do? See, I've Never Retired. I Don't Even Know What It Means.

I Was Very Lucky Once I Got Started With A Career. I Happened To Get Some Really Good Parts To Play With Some Really Good People To Play With.

Somebody Once Said To Me After I'd Done "deep Impact," "what Is It Like To Play A Black President," And I Said, "i Didn't Play A Black President. I Played A President. I Just Happened To Be Black. There's A Difference.

Actors Cannot Work Against Each Other. It's Totally Impossible.

Get Busy Livin' Or Get Busy Dyin'.

I'm Not Intimidated By Lead Roles. I'm Better In Them. I Don't Feel Pressure. I Feel Released At Times Like That. That's What I'm Born To Do.

I Don't Think That Anyone Learns Anything. Well, I Mean, You Do Always Learn Something If You Have Your Eyes And Ears Open. You Do Learn Something From Every Outing, Every Time That You Go For It. But For Me What Actors Do Is Interact And That's Why You Have To Do That.

I Am Passionate About What Is Going On With The Oceans, Mainly Because We Are For Some Idiotic Reason, Really Screwing It Up. I Mean, We're Really Killing The Ocean. It's Like Putting Out The Sun. Without It, There Is No Us.

I Joined The Air Force. I Took To It Immediately When I Arrived There. I Did Three Years, Eight Months, And Ten Days In All, But It Took Me A Year And A Half To Get Disabused Of My Romantic Notions About It.

I Just Wanted To Be An Actor. It's Better To Be Well-rounded.

I Know American Football. I Know A Little Bit About Soccer. I Know Baseball, I Know Basketball. But, Rugby Is A Foreign Language.

If I Stay At Home, I'm Not Famous. I'm Only Famous When I'm Out In The Streets, So I Don't Go Out On The Streets Much.

I Don't Need Any More Press. I Get Enough When I Work, But Environmental Causes Is One Place Where You Can Get Me To Open My Mouth. And Put My Foot In It If Necessary. I Think The Only Thing I Do That Gives Me Any Bragging Rights In Terms Of Energy Conservation Is Sailing. Just Using Wind Power.

I Knew At An Early Age I Wanted To Act. Acting Was Always Easy For Me. I Don't Believe In Predestination, But I Do Believe That Once You Get Where Ever It Is You Are Going, That Is Where You Were Going To Be.

I Don't Have To Do Anything. The Character Is Shaped On The Page.

If You Live A Life Of Make-believe, Your Life Isn't Worth Anything Until You Do Something That Does Challenge Your Reality. And To Me, Sailing The Open Ocean Is A Real Challenge, Because It's Life Or Death.

Just That Working With Clint Again Is Like Coming Home.

What Do I Want To Do? Acting Wise? Well, There's A Western That I Want To Do. There's A Lot Of Producing That I Want To Do, Projects That I Have Stacked Up That Are In My Office That I'd Like To Get Done.

I'm Married, I've Been Married To The Same Woman For - Well, I've Been With The Same Woman For Close To...long Enough To Fool Around.

You Can't Take Credit For Talent; You Can Only Take Credit For Using It.

Someone's Always Going To Come Down On The Side Of The Fence.

I've Always Been Really Hot On Westerns. All My Life Growing Up, Cowboy, Cowboy, Cowboy.

The Bigger Point Here Is That Golf Is A Good Metaphor For One's Life. The Challenge Of Golf For Me Is Trying To Learn New Rules. It's Something You Always Have To Work At; You Don't Get Perfect At Golf. It's The Never-ending Quest For Betterment.

I Don't Remember What My Favourite Comedy Film Is - Truthfully! I Saw Borat And I Thought I Was Not Going To Be Able To Get Out Of The Theatre Because I Was In So Much Pain From The Laughter.

I Can Only Be So Long Without Work Before I Start Getting Antsy.

Ive Got A Lot Of Life Left In Me And I Want To Live It Doing Things I Like To Do.

I Seldom Get Into The Mood Of The Story. It's Acting. I Go In, I Act, I Quit. I Don't Take Anything Away From It.

If I Wasn't Acting, I Have No Clue What I'd Be Doing 'cause I Have No Other Talent.

I Know People Are Saying They Like You. I'm Not Being Insulted Or Pushed Around Or Anything. People Are Coming Up Because They Like Me. Nevertheless, I Can't Be Everybody's...none Of Us Can. I Hate Saying No To People.

I'm Not One Who Can Write Out A Speech And Remember All The Names Of The People That You Need To Thank Because You Need To Thank All Of Those People.

As Long As You Feel Like A Victim, You Are One.

If You're Going To Play A Brain Surgeon, You Just Have To Learn How To Say The Words. You Don't Have To Go And Learn How To Cut Open Somebody's Scalp. I Think Acting Is Acting. Being Is Something Else.

I've Just Never Been The Kind Of Actor That Things Have Stayed With. I've Never Needed To Carry A Character Off Stage.

The Best Way To Confront, Or Deal With, Technological Innovation Is To Keep Moving Technologically.

Everybody Works The Same, But The Preparation Very Often May Be Different. You Cannot Work Differently. You Have To Say The Words That Were Written On The Page, And You Have To Make Your Marks. That's The Work.

Let Me Tell You What Justice Is. Justice Is The Law. And That Man's Feeble Attempt To Lay Down The Principles Of Deceny.

I Don't Know What My Favorite Film Of Mine Is... But I Think The Most Important Film I Was In Was Glory.

Look At, Look, The Tea Partiers, Who Are Controlling The Republican Party....their Stated Policy, Publicly Stated, Is To Do Whatever It Takes To See To It That Obama Only Serves One Term. What's, What Does That, What Underlines That? 'screw The Country. We're Going To Whatever We Do To Get This Black Man, We Can, We're Going To Do Whatever We Can To Get This Black Man Outta Here... It Is A Racist Thing.

I Have A Problem With Writer/directors, Personal. I Can't Work Well With Both Of Them On The Set, If Both Of Them Are Giving Instructions. Writers Tend To Be In Love With What They Wrote. You Can't Always Translate The Words Into The Meaning, Sometimes The Meaning Is Better Served Without The Words, Difficult To Make A Writer To Try To Understand That. It Gets, Sometimes, Tense.

Growing Up In Mississippi, I Realized That It Was Separate And Unequal And All That, But It Was Still A Safe Place.

I Think You Have To Be Left-brained, To A Certain Extent, To Understand Science. I Can Talk About It, But I Can't Do It.

But I Can Say That Life Is Good To Me. Has Been And Is Good. So I Think My Task Is To Be Good To It. So How Do You Be Good To Life? You Live It.

People Say It's A Movie About Boxing, But... I Don't Agree At All. I Don't Think It's A Movie About Boxing. Boxing Is Like A Platform. It's Just A Stage Where This Is Played Out.

Attacking People With Disabilities Is The Lowest Display Of Power I Can Think Of

These Walls Are Funny. First You Hate 'em, Then You Get Used To 'em. Enough Time Passes, You Get So You Depend On Them. That's Institutionalized.

My Parents Were Working In A Hospital In Memphis. But I Didn't Live There For Any Length Of Time That I Remember. The First Thing I Remember Is The Town In Mississippi That I Live In Now, Charleston.

I Really Wanted To Work With Luc Besson. I'm A Big Fan Of His. Did You Ever See 'the Professional.' It Was Very Violent. But A Fabulous Story, A Fabulous Movie, Very Well Done. So That And Two Or Three Other Projects Of His That I've Seen, I Just Thought If I Had A Shot To Work With Him I Wanted To Do It.

Write Something Insightful. Say Morgan Freeman Said It. Win At Internet.

I Am God. So It’s Easy To Play Him. They Say God Is In All Things. So If God Is In Me, Then I Am In God. Therefore, I Am God. God Does Not Exist Without Me.

We Are Turning Everything On This Planet Into Food For Humans. We'll Eat It And, If We Can't Eat It, We'll Kill It And Take Its Place And Just Move It Out Of The Way.

You Want To Retire From A Job You're Not That All Enamoured With. I Love What I Do. I Want To Keep Doing It Till I Can't Get Out Of Bed Doing It.

The Trick To Any Profession Is Making It Look Easy.

That's Your Job As The Actor, To Understand The Human Part Of The Character, To Make It Real.

Never Let Pride Be Your Guiding Principle. Let Your Accomplishments Speak For You.

Guiding Principles

"you Are The Actor, And I Understand We Already Had Our Sit Down, You Explained Your Concept, Your View," So I Said, "okay, I'm In Your Hands." That Means That If You've Got To Nudge Me A Little Bit To The Right I Move To The Right, Just From The Pressure, Weight, But You Won't Have To Touch Me At All. You Can Come And Go "okay, You Want Me Over Here A Little Bit More," So No Pressure On Us At All That's Easy To Do.

I Don't Think You're Going To Get Nominated Every Time You Jump Out Of The Box.

...if We Get The Right Kind Of Energy, There Are Endless Amounts. I Think We Should Be Developing Every Kind Of Alternative Fuel That Is Available To Us. That Includes Hydrogen To Soybeans, From Solar To Wind. Whatever We Can Find That Is Going To Help Us Clean Up The Environment We Should Be Working Really Hard On Developing.

I Was Always Ambitious. I Always Wanted To Be More Than I Was....i Always Wanted To Be A Movie Actor.

Doing Comedy Is As Easy As Doing Anything Else. You're Dependent Totally On The Material.

People Need To Start To Think About The Messages That They Send In The Movies.

Literacy Could Be The Ladder Out Of Poverty

If You Get Called On To Help Somebody Pull Focus To Some Good Cause, That's Good Use Of Your Fame. I Don't Try To Avoid That.

I've Been Living With Myself All Of My Life, So I Know All Of Me. So When I Watch Me, All I See Is Me. It's Boring.

In My Home, Who Is My Boss? If You Ask My Wife She'll Say Certainly Not Her. She Claims That She Can't Make Me Do Anything And So She's Not My Boss. I Am. I'm Pretty Sure, Maybe.

Writing I Think, Out Of What All Of Us Do, Writing Is The Hardest. You're The Only Who Start With Nothing Except What's Up Here. You Do That. It's Really Hard I Think, Acting Is Not.

There's An Exercise We Do Where Someone Is Sat Behind You And You're Asked To Close Your Eyes And Fall Backwards. That's Acting.

If You're Playing Somebody Who Is Not You, Then You Can Imagine That You Are That Person. You Can Feel Like He Feels, Move Like He Moves, Look Like He Looks - In Your Own Mind.

Most Of The Time It's The Role. Sometimes It's The Story And Sometimes It Just The Paycheck. It's The Little Movies That Come Out As Stories Or The Fact That I Have Work To Go Out, You Know What I'm Saying, You Can Only Be Out So Long Without Work, You Start Getting Antsy.

Finding Joy Is Probably Tantamount To Finding Yourself And Being Comfortable In Your Own Skin.

Finding Yourself

My Roots Were Pretty Far Removed From High Income. It's Interesting To Be Back There At The Level Of Income I Have Now, At This Stage In My Life.

The Highest Power Is The Human Mind. That's Where God Came From And My Belief In God Is My Belief In Myself.

I Got My First Job As A Card-carrying Actor In New York In 1967. Before That, I Was A Very Desperate Wannabe.

Never Give Up The Ganja.

Insanity Is Coasting Through Life.

Let Me Be The First To Tell You, Drinking Alcohol Is The Worst Thing To Do In Cold Weather. Hot Soup Is The Best Because The Process Of Digesting Food Helps To Warm You Up.

Which Lady Would I Like To Meet? Um, I Don't Know That There's Anybody Left That I Didn't Meet. But The One That I Really Wanted To Meet Died And That Was Princess Diana. I Really Wanted To Get To Know Her. I Like Her.

If You Sat Down And You Wrote A Script, You May Write Something That's Way Beyond What You've Ever Seen Me Do, But If You Thought Of Me To Do It, I Would Be Flattered To Be Asked To Do Something Other Than Be Wise.

A Lot Of People Are Going Around Saying, 'you Won The Academy Award For Such And Such.' 'no. I Didn't.' 'you Didn't?' 'well, You Should Have.'

I'm Not A Comedian. I Don't Make Things Funny If They're Not Funny. I Don't Invent Funny Stuff.

The Accident Was A Horrible Thing - But That Horrible Thing Made Chris, At The End Of His Life, Superman. It's A Happy Irony If There Is Such A Thing. I'm Proud To Have Known Him.

I Go On Vacation Strictly To Relax - To Kick Back With A Good Book And Do Nothing Else But Read, Sleep And Eat.

Race Seems To Me To Be Less And Less A Subject Worth Discussing.

Well, Here’s A Scientific Question: Has Anybody Ever Seen Hard Evidence? What We Get Is Theories From Our Earlier Prophets. Now, People Who Think That God Invented Us Think That The Earth Can’t Be More Than 6,000 Years Old. So I Guess It’s A Question Of Belief. My Belief System Doesn’t Support A Creator As Such, As We Can Call God, Who Created Us In His/her/its Image.

I Find It Difficult To Watch Myself... I Find It Boring.

Nelson Mandela Was A Man Of Incomparable Honor, Unconquerable Strength, And Unyielding Resolve---a Saint To Many, A Hero To All Who Treasure Liberty, Freedom And The Dignity Of Humankind.

If You Look Back On Your Life And Where You Started From It's Like Looking Back Down A Mountain Back To The Desert Floor. It's Like Now I Can't Believe I Had Whatever It Takes Or Perceived Whatever It Took To Get Here.

I Like The Blues A Lot. I Grew Up On It.

Learning How To Be Still, To Really Be Still And Let Life Happen - That Stillness Becomes A Radiance.

Playing Is No Challenge; Every Time That You Get A Role You Get To Go Play With Other People In The Sandbox And So There Is No Challenge, Real Challenge. The Challenge, The Major Challenge Is Getting The Work, Finding The Sandbox.

I Was A B Student In Math, Simply Because My Teachers Liked Me, As An Actor.

I Have To Deal With Being Famous. Sometimes I Have To Tell People I Don't Do Autographs, Thank You Very Much. At Certain Places, I Refuse To Have My Photograph Taken.

Is Listening Important? I Can't Think Of A Single Walk Of Life Where It Wouldn't Be.

All My Life, All My Life That I Can, As Far Back As I Can Remember, I Saw My First Movie When I Was Six Years Old. And Since Then I Wanted To Do That. I Wanted To Be A Part Of That.

When I Was A Teenager, I Began To Settle Into School Because I'd Discovered The Extracurricular Activities That Interested Me: Music And Theater.

The Public Feels That If It's On The Internet And You Can Access It, You Deserve It. You Haven't Committed Any Kind Of Crime. We May Even Have To Rename Piracy. But In Any Case, We Have To Confront It.

Martin Luther King Jr. Is Remembered As Our Prince Of Peace, Of Civil Rights. We Owe Him Something Major That Will Keep His Memory Alive.

I'm Also Very Fond Of A Light Business Jet, So I'd Like To Get It Before It's Too Late.

Was I Always Going To Be Here? No I Was Not. I Was Going To Be Homeless At One Time, A Taxi Driver, Truck Driver, Or Any Kind Of Job That Would Get Me A Crust Of Bread. You Never Know What's Going To Happen.

If Your Income On Films Or Whatever You're Producing Using Film Drops Below A Certain Level, Then You Don't Have Enough Money To Stay In Business. People Like To Say That This Is All Just About Making Money, But If You Don't Make Money, You Don't Make Anything.

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