The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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