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35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

A fella who accepts himself and is relaxed into who he is - that appeals to people.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

A lot of people don't really understand what rehearsal's about. People are afraid they're gonna leave it in the dressing room, or you're gonna shoot your wad in rehearsal.

Always maintain a joyful mind. Appreciate the struggles as opportunities to wake up.

Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.

As a kid, you want to be liked for who you are. You don't want to be liked for who your parents are. You don't want to get a job because of who your parents are. You want to do it on your own, with your own gifts and your own value. So, I decided to spare my kids that and not be as pro-active as my dad was.

As far as Beau is concerned, we're on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are slightly more attractive, or are perceived that way by others, he's very content.

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

As you become famous you lose some of your anonymity, which is wonderful for an actor to have because you can observe people and also people don't have such a strong sense of who you are and that sort of thing.

Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.

During my early years, I thought I might be a musician. Like most kids, I didn't do what my parents wanted me to do. They were gung-ho that all their kids become actors. They loved showbiz so much. I am a product of nepotism, basically.

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

Everybody loses a couple, and you either pack it up and go home or you keep on fighting.

Every couple of years we'll watch the movie and it's like watching home movies, seeing the ranch on-screen. But that movie Heaven's Gate, people are appreciating it more and more as time goes on.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.

Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.

For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

He [Michael Cimino] wasn't the typical filmmaker. I don't know if he had more in him, he certainly had a lot of scripts. I know he wrote a hell of a lot.

Hope's interesting, isn't it? I can't turn hope off, it's hopeless.

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

I confessed to Mike [Cimino] a couple of days before we shot. I was like, "What am I doing here, Mike?" And Mike just looked at me, in that very directorial manor, took a long pause, and he said, "You know the game tag?" And I said, "Yeah." And he said, "Well, you're it." That was some of the best direction I think I've ever received.

I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

I did [Michael Cimino] first movie, "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," and I remember I was still in my twenties and very nervous, we're shooting up in Montana, and I'm thinking, "What the hell am I doing here? I don't feel anything like this part.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.

I don't have too many plans filled out. I know I want to keep doing more music. I've got a couple of albums worth of songs I'd like to put it out there. As far as movies, I just want to continue how I've been doing it: working with terrific people is certainly on my agenda, and then doing stories that interest me.

I don't have too much time to jam with the rest of Hollywood.

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.

I don't really care about having more fame than I have.

I don't really think in career terms.

I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.

I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

If some crazy idea stays in my head for long enough, then there's no fighting it. I just say, Okay, let's go.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.

If you're married you'll have tough times.

I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.

I hadn't talked to him in many, many years. He got a bad rap on "Heaven's Gate." I actually live in the hog ranch from "Heaven's Gate" in Montana. Mike Cimino gave me that set, the whorehouse, that's my house.

I had success as an actor relatively early. When I was 22, I got nominated for an Academy Award for The Last Picture Show, so that road, you know, had the least resistance. I was doing my music all that time, but it's pretty hard to turn down these great movie offers. And my father counseled me; he said, "You know, one of the wonderful things about acting is that you can incorporate all of your interests into the different parts you play." I'm glad I listened to the old man, because that's the way it turned out.

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

I have my prized possession in my wallet. That's a photograph of the first words I ever uttered to my wife, and her answer to my question when I asked her, "Will you go out with me?