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"I feel more comfortable doing films with groups of guys. It's a lot easier for me. There's a difference with women: you can't take them to dinner every night and go crazy."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
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"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."
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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
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"Be different to make a difference."
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"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."
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"The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore."
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"A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries."
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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
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"It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession."
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"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."
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"I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day."
Family

"I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor."
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"I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set."
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"I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough."
Health

"To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation."
People

"Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be."
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"There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress."
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"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead."
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"I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me."
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"I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off."
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