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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.

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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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Cut Direction Door Evocative First Hear Open Stage Thing Visualize Walk
Vanity: my favorite sin.
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Favorite Sin Vanity
You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Audition Got Opportunity Thing Think
It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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After All Go
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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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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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Age Change Everything Feeling Part Play Role Ten Want Year
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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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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