Men must know their limitations.

Children teach you that you can still be humbled by life, that you learn something new all the time. That's the secret to life, really: never stop learning. It's the secret to career. I'm still working because I learn something new all the time. It's the secret to relationships. Never think you've got it all.

Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?

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.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.