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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.

Al Pacino

I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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Alone Director Forgot Represent Stand Surf Wait
Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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