I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you.

I love the fact that I'm having an opportunity to make people laugh and you actually get to hear it.

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

I'm not a quick study, so I'm always struggling for my words right up until.

Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

Even after nearly 50 years in this business, I still feel like I'm lucky every time I get a decent job, but an opportunity to work with people of that ilk.

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

When anyone thinks a woman who serves "gives 'cause that's what mothers or real women do, " they deny her full humanity and thus fail to see the generosity inherent in her acts.

I've never lost anything, but I have given some things up.

There are so many people with all kinds of lucky things happening to them and they don't know how to use it.

My doctors say I am very healthy.

It's just economics 101: When it's free to pollute, you get more pollution. But when there's a price to pay, industry will have an incentive to find low-cost carbon solutions.

The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press.

The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

The poor we shall always have with us, but why the hungry?

Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down.

Without the possibility of death, adventure is not possible.