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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

Al Pacino

I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

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