I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
AL PACINOI found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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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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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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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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Lee 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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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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