“My old drama coach used to say, ‘Don’t just do something, stand there.’ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.”

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

I haven’t killed anybody all day. Help me keep it that way.

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

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.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

Don’t be afraid to be yourself just because you’re not like everybody else in class.

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

I’m not afraid of nothing, I just like the challenge, and I love being here.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die.