I am devastated that 80 years of my life is at risk of being undermined, in the blink of an eye, by Thursday's media reports, but I also want to be clear: I did not create unsafe work environments. I did not assault women. I did not offer employment or advancement in exchange for sex. Any suggestion that I did so is completely false.

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I'm making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it's painful and sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's agonizing even, so I think once you get around those humps: strive for pleasure and peace.

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I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

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The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him... They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white; American, Kansas, middle of America. There is no argument about who he is, or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president. He's America's first mixed-race president.

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So if I believe in God, and I do, it's because I think I'm God.

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Never give up the ganja.

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Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.

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My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

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But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

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I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

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I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.

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As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.

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The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

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Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

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I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.

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Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

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It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

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The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

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If I stay at home, I'm not famous. I'm only famous when I'm out in the streets, so I don't go out on the streets much.

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These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.

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That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

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