I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
AL PACINOBrian 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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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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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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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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