My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
AL PACINOLee 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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All I am is what I’m going after.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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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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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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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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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.
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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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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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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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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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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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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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