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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.

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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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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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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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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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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 was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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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 don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.

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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.

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