I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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