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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.

Al Pacino

I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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Actor All Day Found Keep Later Lighter Serious Try Younger
“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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