“I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.”

Nothing wrong with shooting, as long as the right people get shot.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people’s characteristics so that you can design characters around what you’ve seen.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

A good man always knows his limitations.

Directing is more like you’re being a psychologist and you’re kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.

Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

People love westerns worldwide. There’s something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It’s a simpler time. There’s no organized laws and stuff.

I’d like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for all of us as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.

An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.

Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.

Just trust your instincts. There’s an old saying in golf, you’ve studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don’t trust it, you’ll ruin it; your brain will take over.

It’s like anything in life, visualizing the old man you’re going to become: As long as you have a clear picture of that – the life you want to lead – eventually you’ll probably get there.

I’d rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girl’s heart.

Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.

If a man wants to objectify a woman, he will do it even if she’s clad from head to toe.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.