I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry.

To the world, you are America.

I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts to deteriorate.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin - every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands.

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.