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"I never want to quit playing ball. They'll have to cut this uniform off of me to get me out of it."
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"I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one."


"I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it."
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"When I do something I give everything, so it has to be something that I really want to go for."
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"A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending."
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"I lay on the ground, but then I can't reach - I don't want to take my foot out of the tub - but I've got to call somebody because I've got to get a band-aid or something to stop the bleeding."
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"You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach that point, if you've got some good years left, you want to make sure that you use them wisely."


"Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods."


"The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that."
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"If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed."
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"It's not that complicated. If you hear something and it makes you want to hear it again, that's the ticket. You have to be lucky enough to find geniuses, welcome them and get out of their way."
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"No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing."
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"I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well."
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"It felt like a very, very weird thing to go on the set on September 13th. I would never want to glorify that."
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"The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to."
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