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"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."

"The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow."

"But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."

"Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit."
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"I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott."


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


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


"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 just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials."


"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."
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