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"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."

"I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back."

"The vicious circle of life is employment."

"It is good to work for your living."

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'"

"Hard work is what you do to make ends meet, easy work is getting others to do the hard work for you."
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"Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on."

"Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally."

"What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction."

"All the other guys I think had a scream on Lock, Stock. They just had a laugh and a crack, and thought it would never come out; they were just having a good time. On this one, I felt that."

"The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot."

"They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them."

"If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!"

"It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't."
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