I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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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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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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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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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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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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