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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

I returned to Vietnam in '94, and even then, all those decades later, walking around that place, I remained afraid. And, in some ways, rightly so.

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.

But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents.

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.