A lot of acting is private time.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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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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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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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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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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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