The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Either I act or I die.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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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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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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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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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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