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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

I found it all very scary. This fairytale gets built around you - as if you've been walking through the streets and then Sydney Pollack sees you and goes, 'I'll put you in something!'

I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.

Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

I think at a certain level compared - as was pointed out earlier, compared to what is happening in Europe, the United States still gets the safe-haven money. But underlying that, the United States is not the safe haven but perhaps the most dangerous place of all.

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses.

There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic.

I'm free-spirited, and it gets me into trouble.

As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.

I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.

Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

I don't care whether a role is 10 minutes long or two hours. And I don't care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I'd rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.