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I'm not a politician. I just would like to see us lead the war, this country, this world, in a better way than just killing those people.

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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

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If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

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If you can't use what's at hand, you might as well go into another business!

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Maybe we should have a few laughs, loosen up things a little bit, help people think in a new way. But we're actors, and we're born to communicate.

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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

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Ronald Reagan was an actor, and he was known as the great communicator. He communicated what he felt a lot of people wanted to hear.

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Some people just emanate this great peace of security. It really permeates the whole set, and it's so rare to see that.

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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

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The best thing is the discovery of the character as performed. That's the best part of the work. It's how it comes off the page.

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The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

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The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

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The special effects people are so good! If you avoid looking at them until the moment of the performance, it's pretty sharp.

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There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.

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Tom Hulce and I have great respect for each other. But during the film, we were living a little bit like those two characters.

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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

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With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

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