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"When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim."
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"I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff."

"There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction."

"These are national problems that require national solutions."

"Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago."

"Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities."

"The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise."

"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."

"Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing."

"No one could have nicer sisters. No sibling problems there."
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"It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use."


"When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion."


"I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities."


"Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing."


"I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life."


"I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing."


"I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that."


"I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to."


"I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning."


"The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself."
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