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If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.

I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.

Where I'm at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and spirit. It usually trips them out, but that's the way it's going to be. I'm looking at the big picture.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an immigrant, I came here and got persecuted.' My story is I came here, I worked hard, and it worked out all right. So it's still available.

You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.

Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.

You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.

I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out.

I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

I guess I've got a smart wife.

As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.