I think everybody has something that they’ve been obsessed about in their lifetime.
In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.
President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.
There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.
Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.
I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.
I don’t mind telling a dark side.
It’s always fun to talk about jazz.
When I did ‘Bird,’ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.
I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.
I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players – King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that… I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time.
I’ve always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It’s the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.
I do believe in self-help.
I love big business!
There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.
I just don’t like killing creatures.
Let’s put it this way: there wouldn’t be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn’t be anybody there. We’d struggle to raise a quorum.
Man becomes his most creative during war.
I have worked ever since I was 13.
People love westerns worldwide. There’s something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It’s a simpler time. There’s no organized laws and stuff.
I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.
Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.
I keep working because I learn something new all the time.
I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the ’60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.
God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.
I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.
I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.
Comedy isn’t necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it’s a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.
A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.
I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.
I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet.
I’ve always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.
I love stories about women.
I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
The U.S. military was segregated ’til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.
My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.
I’m not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I’ve always liked the Buddhist religion. When I’ve been to Japan, I’ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.
Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.
I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.
Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.
There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can’t see any difference between take one and take 20.
It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.
As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.
There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.
My mother always told me it wasn’t polite to ask what people make.
I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.
You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.
You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.
You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who’s directed, because an actor who’s directed understands all the problems your production is going through.
We boil at different degrees.
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