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» Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.

» You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

» You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

» You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

» You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

» We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

» We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

» Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

» Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

» To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.

» There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

» The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money.

» The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

» The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

» Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

» My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

» My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

» It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

» It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

» I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

» I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.

» I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

» I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.

» I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country.

» I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

» Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

» High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

» God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

» Around my own friends, I like to mess around.

» Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.

» I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

» I'm better than Olivier.

» Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

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