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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world because God had put me on the ground in Texas. I actually felt sorry for those poor little kids that had to be born in Oklahoma or England or some place. I knew I was living in the best place in the world.

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Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

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Partnerships are good engines for narrative.

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The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going.

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In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

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I still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas.

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The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

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All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

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There's an undeniable tradition of sexism in this country that ties into the move westward by people of European descent and different ways of looking at Manifest Destiny on the west side of the Mississippi River.

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I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: September 15th, 1946

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