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But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city.

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.

The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions.

The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.

If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.

We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work.

The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.

We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past.

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead.

When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.

In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.

If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.

I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.