"His image is that of the man to whom everything has come easily, the guy who always made captain of the team and got the girl," Philip Caputo described actor, director, and activist Robert Redford in Esquire. "The fact is, yeah, certain things did come easy to me in my life," Redford responded in an interview with Nicole Burdette for Harper's Bazaar. "The question isn't whether they came easy or not, it's what you did with what came easy."

Since he became a star in 1969 for his role in the blockbuster movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Redford has used his status to make a number of important contributions to film and to society. "Over the years, he has probably put his money, his mouth, his time, his energy, his intelligence, his expertise, and his muscle more fervently into the causes he believes in than any other...