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“I'm a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers.”
“I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior.”
“People are goofy about the movie business, so you end up counting on friends you knew before you were successful. It is harder to make new friends because you are a little more cautious.”
“If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is.”
“Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them.”
“Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you.”
“I think sometimes in relationships, ladies like having a man who takes care of them, nurtures them. If you can't find it in a man your own age, you find it in somebody who is older.”
“I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies.”
“I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim.”
“For a long time, I can't say I was one who really enjoyed acting. I was always censoring it, or editing it, or analyzing it, rather than just going with it.”
“I have nothing against her, and in fact I'm very fond of my first wife. But we should have ended that marriage eight or 10 years earlier.”
“I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles.”
“When I go on a holiday to a tropical place, I'll spray tan before I go.”
“Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.”
“I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group.”
“Early on, someone had told me, 'You know, the camera can always tell when you're lying.' And, Jesus, that intimidated me. 'The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?' Until one day I thought, 'Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.'”
“Retiring gives the impression that you're relieved that your job is over.”
“My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together.”
“Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.”
“Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets.”